Definition of Raise

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Raise

Raise

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.

To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.

To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.

To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.

To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.

To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.

To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.

To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.

To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.

To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.

To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.

To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.

To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.

To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.

To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.

To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.

To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.

To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.

To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.

Related Definitions:

According, Accumulation, Action, Advance, Agoing, An, And, Any, Appear, Arise, Arouse, As, Assume, Awaken, Barley, Be, Being, Blush, Bread, Bred, Bring, Build, By, Call, Cattle, Cause, Collect, Come, Command, Condition, Consideration, Constituent, Constitute, Corn, Courage, Create, Death, Degree, Dignity, Drawing, Effect, Elevate, Enhance, Erect, Estate, Estimation, Exalt, Excite, Flagstaff, For, Form, Forth, From, Furnace, Get, Give, Go, Grow, Heap, Heat, Heave, Heighten, Hook, In, Incite, Increase, Intensify, Into, Invigorate, Is, It, Land, Leaven, Let, Levy, Life, Lift, Like, Lofty, Low, Lower, Light, Make, Mast, Money, Notice, Object, Objection, Obtain, Occasion, Of, Office, Often, Or, Order, Originate, Other, Pitch, Place, Point, Position, Posture, Price, Procure, Produce, Produced, Promote, Propagated, Pulse, Quiet, Raise, Rank, Recall, Recumbent, Rise, Room, Rouse, Sandy, Scale, Seem, Service, Set, Situation, Smile, Some, Spirit, Spongy, Spring, Start, State, Stir, Stone, Strength, Strike, Structure, Struggle, Submit, Temperature, That, The, To, Together, Tumult, Up, Upright, Upward, Use, Utter, Utterance, Value, Vehemence, Vent, Vigor, Voice, Wall, War, Weight, With, World

Raise Quotations

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Bill Cosby

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington

For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
Ann Coulter

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Raise Translations

raise in Afrikaans is oplei, aanhou, optrek, teel
raise in Dutch is opfokken, telen, fokken, opkweken
raise in Finnish is nostaa, kasvattaa
raise in German is steigern, erheben, aufsteigen
raise in Latin is libero, tollo sustuli sublatum, erigo ; erexi
raise in Portuguese is aumento
raise in Spanish is establecer, levantar, entonar, realzar, alza

Quotes