rise

1. v. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait. Source: opted

2. v. To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. Source: opted

3. v. To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. Source: opted

4. v. To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. Source: opted

5. v. To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer. Source: opted

6. v. To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. Source: opted

7. v. To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. Source: opted

8. v. To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. Source: opted

9. v. To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. Source: opted

10. v. To retire; to give up a siege. Source: opted

11. v. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like. Source: opted

12. v. To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Source: opted

13. v. To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. Source: opted

14. v. To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore. Source: opted

15. v. To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. Source: opted

16. v. To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. Source: opted

17. v. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Source: opted

18. v. To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. Source: opted

19. v. To become of higher value; to increase in price. Source: opted

20. v. To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like. Source: opted

21. v. To increase in intensity; -- said of heat. Source: opted

22. v. To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. Source: opted

23. v. To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations. Source: opted

24. v. In various figurative senses. Source: opted

25. v. To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. Source: opted

26. v. To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. Source: opted

27. v. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. Source: opted

28. v. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. Source: opted

29. v. To come; to offer itself. Source: opted

30. v. To ascend from the grave; to come to life. Source: opted

31. v. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. Source: opted

32. v. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone. Source: opted

33. v. To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form. Source: opted

34. n. The act of rising, or the state of being risen. Source: opted

35. n. The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step. Source: opted

36. n. Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land. Source: opted

37. n. Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream. Source: opted

38. n. Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet. Source: opted

39. n. Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like. Source: opted

40. n. Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice. Source: opted

41. n. Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone. Source: opted

42. n. The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water. Source: opted

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