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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The floor of the abbé’s cell was paved, and it had been by raising one of the stones in the most obscure corner that Faria had been able to commence the laborious task of which Dantès had witnessed the completion.
“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!
“And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!
“But for two of them, and one a woman, it must have been heavy work the raising of that stone.
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