raising
/ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/ noun B1- Elevation.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity. · cattle raising
- Recruitment.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building. · to help at a raising
- The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Plural raisings
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From the top of this boulder the gleam of something bright caught my eye, and, raising my hand, I found that it came from the silver cigarette-case which he used to carry.
The Tin Woodman, raising his axe, rushed toward the little man and cried out, “Who are you?”
“Yet it is hard,” she sometimes thought, “that this poor man cannot come to a house, which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation!
He did not move at the sound of the door, and continued his calculations until the flash of the torches lighted up with an unwonted glare the sombre walls of his cell; then, raising his head, he perceived with astonishment the number of persons present.
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