(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.
Transgression
Definition:
(n.) The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appears likely to argue that it has already taken steps to deal with coaches and lab technicians who transgressed and insist that there is not enough evidence for Russia to be suspended.
(2) Its specific applications in surgical planning include the question of chest wall invasion, brachial plexus involvement, and transgression of the diaphragm, pericardium, or lung apex.
(3) After transgressing of the pathological process to the state of fibrosis the vessels were showing a striped course presenting a greater number of broncho-pulmonary anastomoses.
(4) Both materials elicited a surrounding inflammatory reaction containing macrophages which transgressed the interstices of only the PGA prostheses.
(5) A case of malignant astrocytoma in the frontoparietal parasagittal region with transgression into the overlying dura mater and the skull is presented.
(6) Renal cell carcinomas were single, unilateral, nonwedge-shaped, and exophytic, and easily transgressed the renal capsule.
(7) And that voice like a whip-crack: impish, transgressive, swooping from a mutter to a scream.
(8) Resisting widely-accepted norms involves varying levels of inconvenience and risk, from women getting funny looks on the bus if they’ve not shaved their legs all the way through to rape and murder for more grave “transgressions”.
(9) When both spouses described their mates as transgressive and themselves as ineffectual responders to transgression, the dysfunction reported by both spouses was pronounced.
(10) She said: "To date, the UK Border Force can do little more than accuse me of intending to possibly commit a future transgression, as it has been forced to admit there has been none.
(11) The combat against the streptococcal infection by means of penicillin transgresses into a recidivation prophylaxis with benzathin-penicillin, which is to be performed up to an age of 5 years.
(12) Feinstein, in an extraordinary Senate floor speech, said the CIA had transgressed its constitutional boundaries and prompted a crisis, one that the CIA inspector general is examining.
(13) More than 200 people complained about transgressions including swearing before the 9pm watershed, when Cocozza shouted "fucking have it, get in there" after avoiding being voted out, and glamorising alcohol abuse in clips showing him partying in London nightclubs.
(14) "You do get blasts every now and then about talks or items within political programmes or current affairs programmes where people feel that we have transgressed our impartiality ethos.
(15) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
(16) It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent."
(17) Speaking on Monday morning, Hanningfield, a 73-year-old former pig farmer, stopped short of offering an apology for his latest transgression, but said that he had not known what he was doing was wrong and intends to return to the House of Lords after his suspension.
(18) We concluded that aseptic practices, as routinely performed without any noticeable breaks or transgressions, do not guarantee sterility.
(19) His decision to re-integrate Bardsley following a couple of serious disciplinary transgressions during Paolo Di Canio's tenure was rewarded by the full-back's second goal in two games.
(20) However, the manner in which this new system is being implemented in some cases transgresses some fundamental principles of MCQ examinations.