raising

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of raise

Noun

• Elevation.
• Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
• Recruitment.
• Collection or gathering, especially of money.
• The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
• The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
• A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
• The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
• The substance used to make bread rise.
• The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

Origin

• From Middle English reisyng; equivalent to raise + -ing.