Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of lifting, elevating, etc. (in any sense of the verb).
- noun Same as
raising-piece . - noun 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.).
- noun In printing, the overlays in a press for woodcut-printing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
- noun U.S. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- noun The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- noun [U.S.] a bee for raising the frame of a building. See
Bee , n., 2. - noun a hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal.
- noun (Carp.) the plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
raise . - noun Elevation.
- noun Nurturing;
cultivation ; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity - noun Recruitment.
- noun Collection or gathering, especially of money.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the event of something being raised upward
- noun the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- adjective increasing in quantity or value
- noun helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
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Examples
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As a general example, clicking on the member's name that was primed to pop up with a Google search for the phrase "raising debt ceiling" would cost taxpayers approximately $4.70 per click.
And a Happy Festivus From Congress Too Jeff Flake 2011
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I used the word "raising" earlier, because schools should be your children's other parents.
Mo Thurman: The Sensitive Subject of Educational Reform Mo Thurman 2012
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I used the word "raising" earlier, because schools should be your children's other parents.
Mo Thurman: The Sensitive Subject of Educational Reform Mo Thurman 2012
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I used the word "raising" earlier, because schools should be your children's other parents.
Mo Thurman: The Sensitive Subject of Educational Reform Mo Thurman 2012
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I used the word "raising" earlier, because schools should be your children's other parents.
Mo Thurman: The Sensitive Subject of Educational Reform Mo Thurman 2012
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Lou, I think that's what you call raising the incentive.
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It is exceedingly difficult to put them first in motion, which they call raising them.
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It does little to contain raising cost of health care in America, and is a giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance industry.
Obama gives pep talk to Senate Democrats on health care 2009
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Talking about Palin raising money, why is she raising money?
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I believe in raising good kids is the most important thing in the world.
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