(v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
(v. i.) To hover around; to loiter; to lurk.
Example Sentences:
(1) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
(2) On Brighton council Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Greens are focusing on ‘changing the direction of travel’ in Brighton and Hove.
(3) Chris Thomson, principal of Brighton, Hove and Sussex sixth form college What dismays me is the emphasis on qualifications rather than education.
(4) As well as being his first Miller, A View from the Bridge is the first time Van Hove has worked with British actors.
(5) In a speech in Hove, East Sussex, Cameron made an attempt to answer some of his critics who say the planned cuts are too harsh.
(6) Van Hove worried briefly about the change of locale.
(7) While individual schools like Hove Park and Kennet have found an answer which works for them, the question remains on how this success can be replicated across the country.
(8) But the results of this latest questionnaire seem to have bucked the trend by naming Brighton and Hove as the worst resort in the country.
(9) Brighton and Hove Albion have confirmed the appointment of Oscar García as Gus Poyet's replacement at the Amex Stadium, with the former Barcelona midfielder taking up the newly created role of "head coach".
(10) Óscar García has offered his resignation following Brighton & Hove Albion's defeat in their play-off semi-final against Derby County , with the Spaniard likely to leave this week, despite being given time to mull over his decision.
(11) The whole world wants to see our game.” Considering that Boro’s Basque manager is not given to hyperbole, his words serve as a reminder that Brighton & Hove Albion’s visit to Teesside represents the highest of high-stakes fixtures.
(12) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
(13) Real Madrid’s Scotland Under-19 international attacker Jack Harper has signed for Brighton and Hove Albion on a permanent, two-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
(14) "One of the worst experiences was at this beautiful festival in Norway called Hove.
(15) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
(16) Defenders Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town); Gary Caldwell (Wigan Athletic); Craig Forsyth (Derby County); Gordon Greer (Brighton and Hove Albion); Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers); Alan Hutton (Aston Villa); Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic); Andrew Robertson (Dundee United); Steven Whittaker (Norwich City).
(17) Paul Holloway, head of electoral services Brighton and Hove city council, said: "We have seen a healthy surge in the numbers of residents making contact to ensure they are registered to vote... we have averaged around 2,000 alterations to the register every month and the post we receive recently has tripled.
(18) Brighton and Hove city council has put £7,000 into the scheme to help the city's unusually high number of independent shops which lack the financial might of a chain to support them.
(19) But screen-to-stage adaptations of loose trilogies by art-house directors are few and far between (even if Van Hove has also adapted works by Ingmar Bergman , John Cassavetes and Luchino Visconti ).
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Labour candidate Peter Kyle, left, knocks on doors to canvass opinion in Hove.
Raise
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
(v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
(v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
(v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
(v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
(v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
(v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
(v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
(v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
(v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
(v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
(v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
(v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
(v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
(v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
(v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
(v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
(v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
(v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
Example Sentences:
(1) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(4) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(5) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(8) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
(9) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
(10) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(13) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(14) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(15) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(16) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
(17) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(18) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(19) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
(20) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.