Definitions for risings

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risings ris·ing

Spelling: [rahy-zing]

IPA: /ˈraɪ zɪŋ/

Risings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in risings (giinrss).

Definitions for risings

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that rises.
2. an insurrection; rebellion; revolt.
3. something that rises; projection or prominence.
4. a period of leavening of dough preceding baking.
5. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a morbid swelling, as an abscess or boil.
6. Also called riser. Nautical. a stringer supporting the thwarts of an open boat.
7. an act or instance of rising.
8. appearance above the horizon, as of the sun or moon.
9. elevation or increase in rank, fortune, influence, power, etc.:
10. an increase in height, as of the level of water.
11. the amount of such increase.
12. an increase in amount, as of prices.
13. an increase in price or value, as of commodities.
14. Chiefly British. raise (defs 33–35).
15. an increase in degree or intensity, as of temperature.
16. an increase in loudness or in pitch, as of the voice.
17. Architecture, Building Trades. the measured height of any of various things, as a roof, a flight of steps, a stair step, or the crown of a road. the measured height of an arch from the springing line to the highest point of the intrados.
18. the vertical distance through which the floor of an elevator or the like passes.
19. origin, source, or beginning:
20. a coming into existence or notice:
21. extension upward.
22. the amount of such extension.
23. upward slope, as of ground or a road.
24. a piece of rising or high ground:
25. the distance between the crotch and the waist of a pair of trousers:
26. Angling. the coming up of a fish toward the surface in pursuit of food or bait.

Idioms

1. get a rise out of, Informal. to provoke, as to action or anger. to evoke the expected or desired response from.
2. give rise to, to originate; produce; cause:

adverb

1. somewhat more than:
2. in approach of; almost; well-nigh:

adjective

1. advancing, ascending, or mounting:
2. growing or advancing to adult years:

Verb phrases

1. rise above, to ignore or be indifferent to, as an insult.

verb (used with object)

1. Nonstandard. to cause to rise.
2. Nautical. to cause (something) to rise above the visible horizon by approaching nearer to it; raise.

verb (used without object)

1. to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position:
2. to get up from bed, especially to begin the day after a night's sleep:
3. to become erect and stiff, as the hair in fright.
4. to get up after falling or being thrown down.
5. to become active in opposition or resistance; revolt or rebel.
6. to be built up, erected, or constructed.
7. to spring up or grow, as plants:
8. to become prominent on or project from a surface, as a blister.
9. to come into existence; appear.
10. to come into action, as a wind or storm.
11. to occur:
12. to originate, issue, or be derived; to have a source.
13. to move from a lower to a higher position; move upward; ascend:
14. to ascend above the horizon, as a heavenly body.
15. to extend directly upward; project vertically:
16. to have an upward slant or curve:
17. to attain higher rank, status, or importance or a higher economic level:
18. to advance to a higher level of action, thought, feeling, etc.:
19. Angling. (of fish) to come up toward the surface of the water in pursuit of food or bait.
20. to prove oneself equal to a demand, emergency, etc. (followed by to):
21. to become animated, cheerful, or heartened, as the spirits.
22. to become roused or stirred:
23. to increase in height, as the level of water:
24. to swell or puff up, as dough from the action of yeast.
25. to increase in amount, as prices.
26. to increase in price or value, as commodities.
27. to increase in degree, intensity, or force, as fever, color, etc.
28. to become louder or of higher pitch, as the voice.
29. to adjourn or close a session, as a deliberative body or court.
30. to return from the dead:

Origin of risings

1150-1200; Middle English (gerund). See rise, -ing², ing¹

Examples for risings

Launched just 13 years ago, it quickly became a serious rival to MAS and a rising juggernaut in Asia.

Since then, the rising gap between the rich and middle- and lower-income families has risen to the fore.

Since rising to power over the past five years, Boko Haram has killed more than 6,000 Nigerians.

"I'll put on the teakettle at once, Robert," said his mother, rising.

But every eye was upon me, and the Church was silent as death, waiting for my rising.

We are much in want of rain, and thought we should have had some, but the barometer is rising this evening.

But he must see that the boy was safe in bed, and rising he left the room.

No law or even revolution in police tactics can fully curb the rising expectations that come with a wired world.

rising up from scooping bay, the steep topography—hemmed by hills of evergreens—promises panoramas at practically every turn.

We see the same idea also in the rising and setting sun and moon.