Raising

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  • v. Present participle of raise.
  • n. Elevation.
  • n. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
  • n. Recruitment.
  • n. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
  • n. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
  • n. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of lifting, elevating, etc. (in any sense of the verb).
  • n. Same as raising-piece.
  • n. That with which bread is raised; yeast or yeast-cake; leaven. Gayton, Festivous Notes on Don Quixote (cited by Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int.).
  • n. In printing, the overlays in a press for woodcut-printing.
  • n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the event of something being raised upward
  • n. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
  • adj. increasing in quantity or value
  • n. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
  • Equivalent
    increasing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    erection    revival   
    Verb Stem
    raise   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    amazing    appraising    blazing    gazing    glazing    grazing    hazing    phasing    phrasing    praising