raise

Meanings

Verb

• To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• To create, increase or develop.
• To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
• To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• To exponentiate, to involute.
• To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
• To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
• To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).

Noun

• An increase in wages or salary; a rise .
• A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• A bet that increases the previous bet.
• A cairn or pile of stones.

Related

Similar words

• lift

Origin

• From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa ("to raise"), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną, causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną ("to rise"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- ("to rise, arise"). Cognate with Old English rāsian ("to explore, examine, research"), Old English rīsan ("to seize, carry off"), Old English rǣran ("to cause to rise, raise, rear, build, create"). rear.
• From Old Norse hreysi; the spelling came about under the influence of the folk etymology that derived it from the verb.