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Raising
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Raising has 3 senses
- raising(n = noun.event) elevation, lift - the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" is a kind of ascension, ascent, rise, rising
- raising(n = noun.attribute) nurture, rearing - the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child; Array is a kind of upbringing
- raising(n = noun.act) breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing - helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" is a kind of acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization
Derived form verb raise8
Derived form verb raise6
Adjective Raising has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
Raising, n.
- The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. [1913 Webster]
- Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [1913 Webster]
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
Raising
addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ampliation, amplification, apotheosis, apprenticeship, architecture, ascent, assembly, assumption, augmentation, barmy, basic training, beatification, breaking, breeding, broadening, building, canonization, casting, composition, conditioning, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crescendo, cultivation, deification, deployment, development, devising, diastatic, discipline, dispersion, drill, drilling, elaboration, elevation, enlargement, enshrinement, enzymic, erecting, erection, escalation, exaltation, exercise, expansion, extension, extraction, fabrication, fanning out, fashioning, fermenting, fetching-up, flare, formation, forming, formulation, fostering, framing, green thumb, grooming, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, heaving up, height, hiking, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, increase, leavening, lifting, lofting, machining, magnification, making, manual training, manufacture, manufacturing, military training, milling, mining, molding, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, readying, rearing, refining, rehearsal, shaping, sloyd, smelting, splay, spread, spreading, standing on end, sursum corda, training, upbringing, upbuoying, upcast, upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, upraising, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust, vocational education, vocational training, widening, working, workmanship, yeastyROGET THESAURUS
Raising
Elevation
N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.
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