(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.
Sunrise
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sunrising
Example Sentences:
(1) The investigators said the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise had violated the 500-metre security zone around the platform and that it was carrying equipment whose purpose was still unclear.
(2) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
(3) This technique permits the preparation of ceramic jacket crowns made on Sunrise laminated precious metal alloy.
(4) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
(5) Radiography included posteroanterior weight-bearing, true lateral, and sunrise patellar projections.
(6) The Leininger Sunrise Model can serve as a valuable guide to discover care meanings and practices related to the theory, and to provide practical and meaningful culture specific care decisions and actions by nurses.
(7) That same year, he married his partner, the French actress Sunrise Coigney, reportedly after she turned down his proposal once before.
(8) Russian investigators have raised the stakes in their battle with Greenpeace , claiming drugs have been found aboard the organisation's ship, the Arctic Sunrise.
(9) Oxford University accused of 'distasteful joke' over oligarch's £75m donation Read more The spy case and the attack on Sunrise involved the participation of Russian officials who are listed as gross human rights violators by the US Treasury in line with the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012.
(10) The maximum response observed at sunrise occurred when the concentration of calcium in the plasma of control frogs was decreasing; the minimum response, which occurred 6 h after sunrise, was coincident with a diurnal peak in the concentration of calcium.
(11) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
(12) The activity of the slide at noon was 65% of the maximum activity (83 A) observed before sunrise.
(13) More than 20,000 people were at the ancient monument to greet the sunrise at 4.52am at the start of the longest day of the year.
(14) Columns of fighters carrying rifles, trucks laden with rockets and men in white wearing mock suicide vests were on the move through the former slum-turned-battlefield soon after sunrise in a futile attempt to beat the blazing midsummer heat.
(15) This begins shortly after sunrise at a temperature of 22 degrees C and a relative humidity of 100%.
(16) "The majority of people play by the rules, they work from sunrise to sunset and pay their taxes as much as they can.
(17) Twelve hour collections from sunset to sunrise showed that An.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yoga at Amouage It offers a yoga and surf package including two sessions of yoga a day (at sunrise and sunset), group surf lessons each morning, and afternoons at the beach.
(19) In a single experiment, lasting for 18 months, male and female quail were exposed to an annual cycle of artificial photoperiod synchronized with sunrise and sunset, and their plasma levels of immunoreactive retinol-binding protein (IRBP) and LH were monitored at frequent intervals.
(20) The all-inclusive programme is good value, because it includes riding, sunrise yoga, all meals (including four-course dinners) and an open bar.