What's the difference between grise and rise?

Grise


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Gree
  • (n.) See Grice, a pig.
  • (n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Tony Blair has become Sisi's éminence grise and is working on the economic plan that the UAE is paying for.
  • (2) In a pre-Bridesmaids world, the name Paul Feig would have meant little, save to a loyal hardcore of 90s coming-of-age TV fans who saw him as the eminence grise behind Judd Apatow's comic empire.
  • (3) Law and Justice’s eminence grise – part Yoda, part Karl Lagerfeld – runs a country of almost 40 million people from his party office in central Warsaw.
  • (4) As the grisest of Westminster éminences grises, it should have been him that got to pronounce on the health of the intelligence services.
  • (5) Before his death in 2011, Richard Hamilton went from enfant terrible to éminence grise of British pop art, famous for his collages such as Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
  • (6) Ormsby-Gore became an éminence grise to Kennedy, closer to him even than some White House advisors.
  • (7) But if the president has thrown in with the neocons and War Party, and we are plunging back into the Mideast maelstrom, Trump should know that many of those who helped to nominate and elect him – to keep us out of unnecessary wars – may not be standing by him.” Kristol: Trump ‘Mugged by Reality’ Publication : The Weekly Standard, Kristol Clear podcast Author: Michael Graham fulfills his appointed weekly role of tossing flattery and softball questions in the few gaps in a rant by William Kristol, neocon eminence grise, war fan, and Weekly Standard founder.
  • (8) But Saturday's last-minute registration of Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful former president and the pragmatic éminence grise of Iranian politics for decades, has dramatically overturned the assumption that this will be a contest only between dyed-in-the-wool conservatives.
  • (9) Mubarak, commander of the air force before becoming president in 1981, is still surrounded by trusted generals, including Omar Suleiman, his veteran intelligence chief and éminence grise, and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the defence minister and chief of staff.
  • (10) Conservative eminence grise Phyllis Schlafly believes Obama is allowing it into the country deliberately .
  • (11) Roger Ailes , Fox News chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch’s closest general and èminence grise to a gallery of Republican presidents, was negotiating his exit from a job he has held for 20 years, his reputation in shreds amid allegations of sexual impropriety at the network – the latest reportedly from Fox News’s brightest star.
  • (12) The unique system of Islamic governance created by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic's éminence grise , may be tested to breaking point.
  • (13) And [I’m] proud to be a part of it.” But he dismissed claims levelled by the former president that Lynne Cheney, his wife, as well as his daughter Liz Cheney, had been the “eminence grises” behind his vice-presidency.
  • (14) If he is not as famous as he deserves, it is partly because he liked to play the behind-the-scenes role of the mentor, the guru, the éminence grise.

Rise


Definition:

  • (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
  • (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
  • (v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
  • (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
  • (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
  • (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
  • (v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
  • (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
  • (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
  • (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
  • (v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
  • (v.) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
  • (v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
  • (v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
  • (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
  • (v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
  • (v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
  • (v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price.
  • (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
  • (v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
  • (v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
  • (v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
  • (v.) In various figurative senses.
  • (v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
  • (v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
  • (v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
  • (v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
  • (v.) To come; to offer itself.
  • (v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
  • (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
  • (v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
  • (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
  • (n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
  • (n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
  • (n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
  • (n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
  • (n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
  • (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
  • (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
  • (n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
  • (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (3) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (4) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (5) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
  • (6) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (7) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (8) Rise time and fall time constants have been quantified for describing kinetics of response.
  • (9) Basal 20 alpha DHP levels remained low until a sharp rise at mid pro-oestrus.
  • (10) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (11) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (12) The authors conclude that during the infusion of 5-FU, the rise in FpA activation and reduction in PCa as compared to PCag are compatible with activation of coagulation.
  • (13) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
  • (14) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
  • (15) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
  • (16) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (17) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
  • (18) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
  • (19) The conversion of orotate to UMP, catalyzed by the enzymes of complex II, was increased at 3 days (+42%), a rise sustained to 14 days.
  • (20) During the development of Shvets' leukosis, the weight of spleen and lymph glands and their lymphocyte content change enormously while the number of plasmocytes rises exponentially.

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