Definitions for ROSE

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ROSE rose

Spelling: [rohz]

IPA: /roʊz/

Rose is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in ROSE (eors).

Definitions for ROSE

noun

1. any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa. Compare rose family.
2. any of various related or similar plants.
3. the flower of any such shrub, of a red, pink, white, or yellow color.
4. the traditional reddish color of this flower, variously a purplish red, pinkish red, or light crimson.
5. an ornament shaped like or suggesting this flower.
6. a pink or pinkish-red color in the cheek.
7. rose window.
8. Heraldry. a representation of a wild rose with five petals, usually seeded and barbed in a symmetrical design and used especially as the cadency mark of a seventh son.
9. any of various diagrams showing directions radiating from a common center, as a compass card or wind rose.
10. Jewelry. an obsolete gem style or cut, flat on the bottom and having an upper side with from 12, or fewer, to 32 triangular facets. a gem with this cut.
11. a perforated cap or plate, as at the end of a pipe or the spout of a watering pot, to break a flow of water into a spray.
12. an ornamental plate or socket surrounding the shaft of a doorknob at the face of a door.
13. Mathematics. a plane polar curve consisting of three or more equal loops that meet at the origin. Equation: r = a sin(nθ) or r = a cos(nθ).
14. a pink table wine in which the pale color is produced by removing the grape skins from the must before fermentation is completed.
15. Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
16. Peter Edward ("Pete"; "Charlie Hustle") born 1941, U.S. baseball player.
17. Mount, a mountain in W Nevada, the highest in the Carson Range. 10,778 feet (3285 meters).
18. a female given name.
19. an act or instance of rising.
20. appearance above the horizon, as of the sun or moon.
21. elevation or increase in rank, fortune, influence, power, etc.:
22. an increase in height, as of the level of water.
23. the amount of such increase.
24. an increase in amount, as of prices.
25. an increase in price or value, as of commodities.
26. Chiefly British. raise (defs 33–35).
27. an increase in degree or intensity, as of temperature.
28. an increase in loudness or in pitch, as of the voice.
29. 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.
30. the vertical distance through which the floor of an elevator or the like passes.
31. origin, source, or beginning:
32. a coming into existence or notice:
33. extension upward.
34. the amount of such extension.
35. upward slope, as of ground or a road.
36. a piece of rising or high ground:
37. the distance between the crotch and the waist of a pair of trousers:
38. Angling. the coming up of a fish toward the surface in pursuit of food or bait.

verb

1. simple past tense of rise.
2. Nonstandard. a past participle of rise.

Idioms

1. come up roses, Informal. to turn out all right; result in success, glory, or profit:
2. get a rise out of, Informal. to provoke, as to action or anger. to evoke the expected or desired response from.
3. give rise to, to originate; produce; cause:

adjective

1. of the color rose.
2. for, containing, or growing roses:
3. scented like a rose.

Verb phrases

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

verb (used with object)

1. to make rose-colored.
2. to flush (the face, cheeks, etc.).
3. Nonstandard. to cause to rise.
4. 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 ROSE

before 900; Middle English; Old English rōse Latin rosa; akin to Greek rhódon (see rhododendron)

Examples for ROSE

To his unutterable astonishment Andy rose and stepped between him and the door.

Above, below, the rose of snow, Twined with her blushing foe we spread.

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It was after eleven o'clock when Evelyn rose to go to her room.

The cry that rose up into the night signaled a moral indictment no matter what the grand jury had said.

And how investor confidence would fall drastically each time Rousseff rose in the polls.

He rose with the blow; all his energy, from wrist to instep, was in that lifting drive.

Since the beginning of the decade, the Badgers have reached the rose Bowl three times and have perennially been in the Top-25.

He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.

My heart fluttered as I rose to comply with the demand, and the chapel was hushed.