Dictionary Definition
raise
Noun
1 the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3%
raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: rise, wage hike,
hike, wage
increase, salary
increase]
2 an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the
car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, climb, upgrade] [ant: descent]
3 increasing the size of a bet (as in poker);
"I'll see your raise and double it"
4 the act of raising something; "he responded
with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different
raises for getting ladders up" [syn: lift, heave]
Verb
1 raise the level or amount of something; "raise
my salary"; "raise the price of bread"
2 raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise
your hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: lift, elevate, get up, bring up] [ant:
lower]
3 cause to be heard or known; express or utter;
"raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry"
4 collect funds for a specific purpose; "The
President raised several million dollars for his college"
5 cultivate by growing, often involving
improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux
region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma";
"We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, farm, produce]
7 evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic;
"raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the
air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the
mountain" [syn: conjure,
conjure
up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down,
arouse, bring up,
put
forward, call
forth]
8 move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: lift]
10 call forth (emotions, feelings, and
responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn:
arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, provoke]
11 create a disturbance, especially by making a
great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"
14 give a promotion to or assign to a higher
position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired";
"Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted
after many years of hard work" [syn: promote, upgrade, advance, kick
upstairs, elevate]
[ant: demote]
16 in bridge: bid (one's partner's suit) at a
higher level
17 bet more than the previous player
18 cause to assemble or enlist in the military;
"raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy]
19 put forward for consideration or discussion;
"raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic"
[syn: bring
up]
20 pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue
closer to the roof of the mouth; "raise your `o'"
21 activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny"
22 establish radio communications with; "They
managed to raise Hanoi last night"
23 multiply (a number) by itself a specified
number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
24 bring (a surface, a design, etc.) into relief
and cause to project; "raised edges"
25 invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits";
"lift his ego" [syn: lift]
26 put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
[syn: lift]
27 cause to become alive again; "raise from the
dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected";
"Upraising ghosts" [syn: resurrect, upraise]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- rāz, /reɪz/, /reIz/
-
- Homophones: rase,
rays, Ray's, raze
- Rhymes: -eɪz
- Homophones: rase,
rays, Ray's, raze
Verb
- To cause to rise.
- Raise your hand if want to say something.
- To collect.
- He raises a lot of money for charity.
- To be brought up; to mature
- Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?
- To respond to an initial bet by increasing the amount
required to continue in the hand.
- John bet, and Julie raised requiring John to put in more money.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in
property).
- There should be some consideration (i.e. payment or exchange) to raise a use.
- To exponentiate.
- Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.
Synonyms
to cause to rise
to collect
- Finnish: kerätä
to be brought up
- Czech: vychovat
- Finnish: kasvattaa
- French: soulever
- Irish: tóg
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: پێگهیشتن, پهروهرده کردن
poker term
- Finnish: korottaa
to exponentiate
- Czech: umocnit
- Swedish: upphöja
Noun
Derived terms
Translations
increase in wages
- Danish: lønforhøjelse
- Finnish: palkankorotus
- German: Gehaltserhöhung
- Greek: αύξηση
shoulder excercise
- Finnish: nosto
- Spanish: levantamiento
curling term
- Finnish: kerätä
poker: a raising bet
- Finnish: korotus
Extensive Definition
A raise or Raise is a term which can have several
meanings:
- Raise (Lake District), the name of the 12th highest mountain in the Lake District on the north-west coast of England
- Raise borer, a raise is a shaft in a mine which joins two levels by definition mined upwards (raised)
- Raise, a term used in poker
- A raise may refer to an increase in salary
- A term used in magic, meaning: to summon or conjure
- Raise!, the name of a 1981 album by Earth, Wind and Fire
- Raise (album), the name of a 1991 album by Swervedriver
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Olympian heights, abandon, abet, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, acculturate, accumulate, accumulation, acme, add to, addition, advance, advancement, aerial heights,
agglomerate,
aggrandize, aggrandizement, aggregate, aggroup, amass, ameliorate, amend, amplification, amplify, animate, answer, apex, apotheose, apotheosize, appreciation, apprentice, approach, arouse, articulate, ascent, assemble, augment, augmentation, awaken, ballooning, batch, beatify, better, bloat, bloating, blow up, boom, boost, boss, break, break in, breathe, breed, bring about, bring forward,
bring together, bring up, broach, broaden, broadening, build, build up, buildup, bulk, bulk out, bunch, bunch together, bunch up,
buoy, buoy up, call, call up, call up spirits,
canonize, carve, cast, cast up, cause, chase, cheer up, chime, chisel, chorus, christen, civilize, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, come out with, commandeer, communicate, communicate
with, compare, compile, compose, compound, concoct, condition, conglomerate, conjure, conjure up, conjure up
spirits, conscript,
construct, contact, convene, convert, convey, corral, correspond, create, crescendo, crop, crown, cultivate, culture, cumulate, deify, deliver, detach, detach for service,
develop, development, devise, dig up, dilate, discipline, disclose, discontinue, distend, dizzy heights, draft, draw together, dredge up,
drill, drive together,
dryfarm, edema, edify, educate, elaborate, elate, elevate, elevation, eliminate, emboss, emend, eminence, emit, encourage, engender, enhance, enlarge, enlargement, enlighten, enlist, ennoble, ennoblement, enrich, enroll, enshrine, enthrone, enunciate, erect, escalate, establish, establish
connection, ether,
evoke, evolve, exalt, exaltation, exercise, exhilarate, expand, expansion, express, extend, extension, extract, extrude, fabricate, farm, fashion, father, fatten, favor, feed, ferment, fetch up, fill out,
fit, fling off, float, flood, foment, form, formulate, forward, foster, found, frame, fudge together, gain, garden, gather, gather in, gather
together, get, get in, get
to, get together, get up, give, give expression, give out
with, give rise to, give tongue, give utterance, give voice,
glamorize, glorify, go straight, graduate, graduation, greatening, groom, group, grow, growth, gush, harvest, hatch, haul up, heave, heaven, heavens, heft, height, heighten, heights, heist, hike, hike up, hoick, hoist, hold up, house-train,
housebreak, huff, immortalize, impart, impress, improve, improve upon, inaugurate, increase, increment, indite, induct, inflate, inflation, initiate, inspire, install, instigate, institute, interrogate, introduce, invigorate, invoke, jack up, jerk up,
join, jump, jump up, juxtapose, keep, kick upstairs, knight, knighting, knock up, lard, launch, leap, leaven, lengthen, let out, levitate, levy, lick into shape, lift, lift up, lionize, lip, list, lob, loft, lump together, machine, magnify, maintain connection,
make, make advances, make
an improvement, make contact with, make legendary, make overtures,
make up, make up to, manufacture, mass, match, mature, maximize, meliorate, mend, mention, mill, mine, mobilize, mold, moot, mother, mounting, multiplication, muster, muster in, nurse, nurture, obtain, occasion, open, originate, out with, pair, parent, parlay, partner, pass, passing, patch together, pay
raise, perk up, phonate,
phrase, pick up, piece
together, pique, pitch, plant, pour forth, practice, prefabricate, prefer, preferment, prepare, present, press, process, produce, productiveness, proliferation, promote, promotion, prompt, pronounce, propagate, provoke, puff, puff up, pull together, pull
up, pump, pump up, put
forth, put forward, put in motion, put in tune, put in words, put
to school, put together, put up, pyramid, question, quicken, raise aloft, raise
ghosts, raise up, rake up, rally, ranch, rarefy, reach, ready, rear, rear aloft, rear up, recruit, refine, refine upon, reform, rehearse, relate to, relieve, remove, reply to, respond to,
ridge, ring in, rise, rising ground, round up,
rouse, run, run up, saint, sanctify, say, scrape together, send to
school, set, set agoing, set
astir, set forth, set in motion, set on foot, set up, shape, sharecrop, shout, sign on, sign up, sky, smelt, snowballing, socialize, solicit, sound, spread, stand upright, start
going, start up, steep,
stick up, stimulate,
stir, stir up, straighten
out, stratosphere,
stretch, sufflate, suggest, summon, summon spirits, surge, swell, swelling, take in hand, take
up, tell, terminate, thicken, throne, throw off, throw up,
train, transfigure, transform, tumescence, turn on, up, upbuoy, upcast, upend, upgrade, upgrading, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, upright, uprise, upsurge, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upturn, usher in, utter, vantage ground, vantage
point, verbalize,
vitalize, vivify, vocalize, voice, wake up, waken, waxing, whip in, whisper, whomp up, widen, widening, word, write, zenith