rise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīz
ipa: /ɹaɪz/
homophone: ryes
homophone: wries
rhymes: -aɪz
ipa: /ɹaɪs/
Forms: form: rises
Etymology: From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”). See also raise.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian rize, Saterland Frisian riese (“to arise”), Dutch rijzen (“to rise, ascend, lift”), German Low German riesen (“to rise; arise”), German dialectal reisen (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa (“to rise”), Icelandic rísa (“to rise”). Related also to German reisen (“to travel, fare”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), Danish rejse (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rris (“I raise, grow”) and Russian рост (rost, “growth”).
Senses: examples: text: The rise of the tide.
text: There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
text: Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
glosses: The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
examples: text: The rise of the working class.
text: The rise of the printing press.
text: The rise of the feminists.
glosses: The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
glosses: An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
examples: text: The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.
qualifier: rest of Commonwealth
glosses: Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
examples: text: The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
glosses: The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
glosses: The front of a diaper.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
examples: text: the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
text: I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter VII”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
examples: text: Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.
text: She really got a rise from the audience when she donned a wig and talked like the president.
glosses: A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
examples: text: As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.
text: Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
topics: architecture
glosses: The height of an arch or a step.
Synonyms: sense: increase in pay
word: raise
sense: increase in pay
word: pay raise
Derived terms: dead rise
earthrise
get a rise
get a rise from
get a rise out of
give rise to
high-rise
high-rise syndrome
hi-rise
low-rise
moonrise
on the rise
pay rise
rise form
rise time
rise to the purple
Sherwood Rise
sunrise
take its rise
take one's rise
take the rise
tax rise