Definition of "raise"

raise¹

/ɹeɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present raises, present participle raising, simple past and past participle raised
1. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  1. To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
    Quotations
    I will raise forts against thee.
    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Isaiah xxxix:3
  2. To cause something to come to the surface of water.
  3. (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
  4. To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
  5. (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
  6. (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  7. (military, transitive) To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
2. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  1. To collect or amass.
    Quotations
    Every pound raised goes to helping some of the world's most vulnerable children.
    2021 October 20, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 942, page 71
  2. (obsolete) To call up the forces of, to raise the troops from.
    Quotations
    May it pleaſe your Grace that I ſhall raiſe the ſtreets,To Gard your Maieſtie through Smithfield as you walke.
    1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III
  3. To bring up; to grow.
    Quotations
    Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.
    1981, Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers‎, volume II, Columbia University Press, page xxxix
  4. To promote.
  5. To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
  6. (law) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
  7. To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
    Quotations
    I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy xviii:18
    God voutsafes to raise another World From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
    1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
    The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
    1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
3. To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
4. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
5. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
6. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
7. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
8. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
9. (programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
  Quotations
  Provide some mechanism in the local service class to raise the event. This might take the form of a public method that the host application can invoke to raise the event.
  2007, Bruce Bukovics, Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, page 243
10. (India, transitive) To open, initiate.
noun
plural raises
1. (US) Ellipsis of pay raise.: an increase in wages or salary.
2. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
3. (poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.
4. (mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
  Quotations
  It was necessary to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug for ventilation, and it was completed just as the demand for optical calcite ceased. The underground drifts were left well timbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work.
  1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books
5. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.

raise²

/ɹeɪz/

noun
plural raises
1. A cairn or pile of stones.