Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Ascending, sloping upward, or advancing.
  • adjective Developing or emerging.
  • adjective Increasing in power or influence.
  • adjective About to begin a certain grade or educational level.
  • noun The action of one that rises.
  • noun An uprising; an insurrection.
  • noun A slope or hill.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of one who or that which rises.
  • noun Specifically— The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon. In astronomy the sun or a planet is said to rise when the upper limb appears in the horizon; and in calculating the time allowance must be made for refraction, parallax, and the dip of the horizon. Primitive astronomers defined the seasons by means of the risings and settings of certain stars relatively to the sun. These, called by Kepler “poetical risings and settings,” are the acronychal, cosmical, and heliacal (see these words).
  • noun The act of arising from the dead, or of coming to life again; resurrection.
  • noun A hostile demonstration of people opposed to the government; a revolt; an insurrection; sedition: as, to call out troops to quell a rising.
  • noun That which rises; a prominence, elevation, or swelling; specifically, a tumor on the body, as a boil or a wen.
  • noun In mining, same as rise, 14.
  • noun A giving way in an upward direction from pressure exerted from beneath.
  • noun That which is used to make dough rise, as yeast or leaven. See salt-rising.
  • noun In bread-making, the quantity of dough set to rise at one time.
  • noun A defect sometimes occurring in casting crucible steel, which is said to “boil” in the mold after teeming, producing a honeycomb structure of the metal.
  • noun A water-swelling: said of ova by fish-culturists.
  • noun Nautical, the thick planking laid fore and aft, on which the timbers of the deck bear; also, the narrow strake inside a boat just under the thwarts.
  • Increasing in possessions, importance, power, or distinction: as, a rising town; a rising man.
  • Growing; advancing to adult years, and to the state of active life: as, the rising generation.
  • Growing so as to be near some specified or indicated amount: used loosely in an awkward quasi-adverbial construction: reaching an amount greater than that specified: sometimes with of: as, rising three years old; rising of a thousand men were killed; the colt is rising of two this grass [U. S.]
  • reaching an amount which is at least that specified and may be greater: as, a horse rising fourteen hands
  • approaching but not yet reaching the specified amount: as, a colt rising two years old [Eng.].

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending.
  • adjective Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction
  • adjective Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life.
  • noun The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
  • noun That which rises; a tumor; a boil.
  • noun (Waterworks) the pipe through which water from an engine is delivered to an elevated reservoir.
  • preposition Colloq. & Low, U.S. More than; exceeding; upwards of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of rise.
  • noun rebellion
  • adjective that which goes up

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective sloping upward
  • adjective coming to maturity
  • adjective newly come into prominence
  • noun organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
  • adjective advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
  • noun a movement upward

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Examples

  • Extend the exercise so as to produce with each element, and with all the various intervals, a series or succession of rising and falling intervals, thus: _rising, falling, rising, falling_, etc.

    The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • I seem on a narrow island, the ocean is all around me, and the tide is rising, _rising_.

    Barriers Burned Away Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to call Maggie … to call someone, at any rate—Izzy, or Peter, or even, his name rising phantomlike and unwelcome but rising, incredibly, nonetheless, Con…

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to call Maggie … to call someone, at any rate—Izzy, or Peter, or even, his name rising phantomlike and unwelcome but rising, incredibly, nonetheless, Con…

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • May 11, 2009 at 9:31 pm the compendium have everything that ever had the title rising star on te cover page.

    This Week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Rising Stars | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • He cited terrorist networks, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, and what he called rising regional powers — a likely reference to China and its growing military might — as threats to U.S. security.

    Panetta warns that defense cuts above $400B would be harmful 2011

  • He cited terrorist networks, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, and what he called rising regional powers — a likely reference to China and its growing military might — as threats to U.S. security.

    Panetta warns that defense cuts above $400B would be harmful 2011

  • The U.N. refugee agency expressed alarm Tuesday at what it called rising violence by armed Libyans against sub-Saharan Africans, both in the rebel-controlled eastern portions and in Gadhafi's stronghold in the west.

    Gadhafi loyalists stop migrants from leaving Libya 2011

  • Journalists have imposed a news blackout on the government in response to what they describe as rising brutality against those covering the demonstrations.

    Yoweri Museveni casts foreign media as Uganda's enemies over protest coverage 2011

  • In a lead news article today headlined "Watching a Watchdog," the industry publication Inside Higher Ed draws attention to what it terms rising concerns among higher education observers about the editorial independence of The Washington Post in covering for-profit higher education.

    Higher ed community focuses on Post, Kaplan 2010

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