(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.
Rouse
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
(n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
(n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
(v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
(v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
(v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
(v.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
(v.) To raise; to make erect.
(v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.
(v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
(v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Example Sentences:
(1) The p60v-src protein encoded by Prague Rous sarcoma virus was found to contain two sites of tyrosine phosphorylation.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
(4) Controlled contact studies demonstrated that tumorigenesis in a line of isolator-derived, barrier-sustained, specific pathogen-free chickens requires exposure to both the Marek's disease herpesvirus and an avian leukosis virus, Rous-associated virus, type 2.
(5) To identify mRNAs with altered expression in Rous sarcoma virus (RSV)-transformed cells, we screened a chicken embryo fibroblast (CEF) cDNA library by differential hybridization.
(6) Well one of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon … which means we’ve got to step up.” In the backrooms of the G20 meeting, Australia was continuing to resist language in the official communique encouraging countries to make pledges to the Green Climate Fund , but to a rousing reception at a local university, Obama announced the $3bn US commitment.
(7) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(8) Chelsea roused themselves to equalise through Falcao after an excellent cross by Pedro from the right.
(9) We have previously reported that in culture, rabbit serum inhibits the growth of the epithelial cell line from Buffalo rat liver (BRL) lower than that of the tumorigenic one transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV-BRL).
(10) The longer duration of gs antigen expression in line CB chickens had an adverse effect on their ability to regress Rous sarcomas.
(11) To distinguish between these hypotheses we have tested tumorigenicity of RpSV, a synthetic retrovirus with the normal proto-src coding region in a vector derived from Rous sarcoma virus (RSV).
(12) Glycopeptides were removed by trypsin digestion from the surface of control cells and cells transformed by Rous sarcoma virus, murine sarcoma virus, or polyoma virus.
(13) By analogy with Rous sarcoma virus and the acute leukemia viruses of the MC29 group, the internal specific section of AEV RNA is thought to signal a third class of onc genes in avian tumor viruses.
(14) Restriction fragments of recombinant plasmids containing a proviral sequence of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) were Southern hybridized with double-stranded (ds) RNA isolated from the cells transformed with RSV.
(15) Cells incubated with TPA lose the ordered actin-containing structures found in normal cells and resemble Rous sarcoma virus-transformed cells in that the immunofluorescent actin pattern is diffuse.
(16) The effect of inoculating formalinized syngeneic or allogeneic Rous sarcoma cells on the growth of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV)-induced tumors in two related inbred strains of chickens was studied.
(17) This virus was generated during serial passaging of Rous-associated virus type 1 (RAV-1) in chicken embryo neuroretina (NR) cells and was selected for its ability to induce proliferation of these nondividing cells.
(18) Muscle cultures infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant (TS) at permissive temperatures behave as cells infected with wild-type Rous sarcoma virus.
(19) Herbimycin A, an antibiotic which reverses Rous sarcoma virus transformation, inhibited irreversibly the auto- and trans-phosphorylation activities of p60v-src in in vitro immune complex kinase assays.
(20) Michael Rouse, 54, from Penge, south-east London, who was visiting his father at the Tower Bridge care centre in Bermondsey, said he had not been told anything about the company's difficulties.