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Prise


Definition:

  • (n.) An enterprise.
  • (n. & v.) See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The truth is that it doesn’t depend on me.” £17.5m is the amount it will take to prise him away from the Stadio Olimpico.
  • (2) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
  • (3) Martin O'Neill , however, has taken this as his cue to try to prise James Collins from Villa Park.
  • (4) But Cech’s status means a big fee will be required to prise him from Stamford Bridge as his contract does not expire until the end of next season.
  • (5) The book faced a common fate for those who try to separate out finance and industrial capitalism, as if they could be prised apart.
  • (6) Tough issues like welfare, immigration, counter-terrorism, Europe, tax and the environment would start to prise this coalition apart.
  • (7) Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan and Reading defender Adrian Mariappa have done medicals with Palace this morning and the south London club are also trying to prise Liam Bridcutt and Leo Ulloa away from Brighton.
  • (8) It’s important that the spirit of sport wins out too.” Wenger also returned to the case of Anthony Martial, saying that he did not think that the player could be prised from Monaco before Manchester United signed him for a fee that could rise to £58m.
  • (9) Whether they could meet the fee required to prise Rémy away, however, remains to be seen though the fact Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival with a £43m move for Atlético’s Antoine Griezmann could hasten his departure.
  • (10) The cerebral midfielder shimmies this way and that, hoping to prise United open somehow, but the red line holds firm.
  • (11) Having recently prised the direction of special force night raids from US control, the infiltration of fighters equipped with rocket-propelled grenades, suicide vests and machine guns inside Kabul's equivalent of Baghdad's green zone must count as a major security lapse.
  • (12) If, through the creation of the Red Cross and later Médecins Sans Frontières, the right to healthcare even in conflict has become the norm for more than a century, then we can achieve the same for education in 2014, and prise open a window of hope amidst the increasing despair.
  • (13) Meanwhile Alan Pardew, Newcastle's manager, has reached an impasse in his attempts to prise the France right-back Mathieu Debuchy away from Lille, the Brazilian central defender Douglas from FC Twente and Andy Carroll from Liverpool.
  • (14) Later that night, Lola wailed in the street as the police prised her baby from her arms and led her into custody.
  • (15) Any interest in the Tunisia centre-half Aymen Abdennour has been dropped after he swapped Monaco for Valencia, while Zenit St Petersburg will resist attempts to prise away the Argentina defender Ezequiel Garay.
  • (16) They believe they have a good idea about who the core readership is, and one of the ways they prise a reaction from that readership is through shrieked alerts and cautionary tales about The Other.
  • (17) The striker has long been José Mourinho's principal forward target for the close season, a player Chelsea could not hope to prise away from the Vicente Calderón mid-term, with the London club now prepared to trigger the release clause in Costa's deal.
  • (18) The 21-year-old Frenchman is being monitored by Louis van Gaal as a potential summer recruitment but his decision to sign a new deal will make it hard for United to prise him away from the San Mamés.
  • (19) In a tight match they could easily have lost, City stayed patient, trusted in their ability and eventually prised open a Newcastle defence that was becoming increasingly stubborn.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shashi Tharoor: Britain should pay India damages over colonial rule Democracy, in other words, had to be prised from the reluctant grasp of the British by Indian nationalists.

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.