toraise your hand if you want to say something; toraise your walking stick to defend yourself
2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, inRAIL, number999, pages29-30:
Because of the heavy traffic, the 1960-61 Christmas guide to trains between King's Cross and the north stated: "To make travel conditions as comfortable as possible, passengers are requested toraise arm rests to enable four people to be seated on each side of those compartments which are fitted with arm rests."
To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
(military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
toraise a lot of money for charity; toraise troops
1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, inRailway Magazine, page79:
But capital was proving difficult toraise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.
2021 October 20, “Stop & Examine”, inRAIL, number942, page71:
Every poundraised goes to helping some of the world's most vulnerable children.
Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve yearsraising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.
A few important questions wereraised after the attack.
2025 February 1, Tami Luhby, Eric Bradner and Rene Marsh, “Federal employees confused, angered by Trump’s offer to quit”, inCNN[2]:
President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it – angering some, confusing many andraising questions about whether the offer is even legal.
2025 March 26, Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, “SignalGate Isn’t About Signal”, inWIRED[3]:
All of which is to say, SignalGateraises plenty of security, privacy, and legal issues.
(law) To create; to constitute (ause, or a beneficial interest in property).
There should be some consideration (i.e., payment or exchange) toraise a use.
To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
Starting in January we willraise (introduce) taxes on all tobacco substitutes and vaping accessories.
I willraise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
God voutsafes to raise another World From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance soraised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able toraise the police.
(poker,intransitive) To respond to abet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
John bet, and Julieraised, requiring John to put in more money.
2007, Bruce Bukovics,Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, page243:
Provide some mechanism in the local service class toraise the event. This might take the form of a public method that the host application can invoke toraise the event.
It is standard US English to raise children, and this usage has become common in all kinds of English since the 1700s. Until fairly recently, however, US teachers taught the traditional rule that one should raise crops and animals, butrear children, despite the fact that this contradicted general usage. It is therefore not surprising that some people still prefer "to rear children" and that this is considered correct but formal in US English. Modern British English also prefers "raise" over "rear".
It is generally considered incorrect to sayrear crops or (adult) animals in US English, but this expression is (or was until relatively recently) common in British English.
Maori:whakahī(Referring to lifting the pitch of a musical note),hāpai(Of lifting an object to a higher elevation),hī(Refers to raising an eyebrow in scepticism),hiki(To lift up),mairangi(To lift up),whakanana(Of the eyebrows),matahī(of the eyebrows)
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(mining) Ashaft or awinze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books
It was necessary tospile through thevug, as it was filled with mud. Araise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug for ventilation, and it was completed just as the demand for optical calcite ceased. The undergrounddrifts were left welltimbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work.
