Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who rises, especially from sleep.
- noun The vertical part of a stair step.
- noun A platform, as for elevating a group of people above a crowd, often arranged with similar platforms in tiers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A riser pipe; any pipe which conveys a supply of hot or cold water, steam, gas, etc., from the source of supply upward, as through a building to bathrooms, radiators, or gas-fixtures.
- noun In bee-keeping, a portion of a hive inserted under another hive to make more room.
- noun In electricity, a wire connecting the various floors of a building and serving for the transmission of currents for electric lighting or power.
- noun One who or that which rises.
- noun One who revolts; a rebel or rioter.
- noun In angling, a fish considered with reference to its manner of rising.
- noun In founding: An opening in a molding-flask into which the molten metal rises as the flask is filled; a head.
- noun Same as
feed-head , 2. - noun The vertical face of a stairstep. Also
raiser and lift. - noun plural In printing, blocks of wood or metal upon which electrotype plates are mounted to raise them to the height of type. [Eng.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who rises.
- noun The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread.
- noun Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.
- noun (Mining) A shaft excavated from below upward.
- noun (Founding) A feed head. See under
Feed , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone or something which
rises . - noun A
platform orstand used tolift orelevate something. - noun The
vertical part of astep on astaircase . - noun archery The main
body of abow . - noun A
conduit orpath between floors of a building forplacement oftelephone ,networking , and otherutility cables . - noun A
Manx cat with an extremely short tail.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who rises (especially from bed)
- noun a vertical pipe in a building
- noun structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have an S-Coil on my Mathews Legacy, but I also added a Simms Modular Node to the back side of the riser - I don't know if you can do this on the Z7 - might be able to add it to the front since the riser is set in so deep.
Gonna need a new stabilizer for my new Mathews Z-7. What and why do you like it? 2010
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The edge of a tread that projects past the face of the riser is called the NOSING.
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A 1/2 PVC sprinkler riser is just the right size (with maybe a couple turns of tape around it).
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I have an S-Coil on my Mathews Legacy, but I also added a Simms Modular Node to the back side of the riser - I don't know if you can do this on the Z7 - might be able to add it to the front since the riser is set in so deep.
Gonna need a new stabilizer for my new Mathews Z-7. What and why do you like it? 2010
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On Thursday night the dome was lowered onto the largest leak, a hole in a pipe called a riser, which is now partly buried in mud.
Engineers trying multiple tactics in battle to plug oil well in Gulf of Mexico 2010
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They are set up in riser fashion they way stadium seating is, so that the first row of people have their feet on the ground, the second row is behind and raised up, and so forth.
unexpected 2008
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On Thursday night the dome was lowered onto the largest leak, a hole in a pipe called a riser, which is now partly buried in mud.
Engineers trying multiple tactics in battle to plug oil well in Gulf of Mexico 2010
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And a typical stair riser is not more than 7 high, which means nothing but smallish trade paperbacks under there.
Staircase Bookcase 2008
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On Thursday night the dome was lowered onto the largest leak, a hole in a pipe called a riser, which is now partly buried in mud.
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On Thursday night the dome was lowered onto the largest leak, a hole in a pipe called a riser, which is now partly buried in mud.
Engineers trying multiple tactics in battle to plug oil well in Gulf of Mexico 2010
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