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^ rais⋅ing [rey-zing]
–noun Linguistics.
a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocentThink they mean...
ris⋅ing [rahy-zing]
–adjective
1. advancing, ascending, or mounting: rising smoke.
2. growing or advancing to adult years: the rising generation.
–adverb Informal.
3. somewhat more than: The crop came to rising 6000 bushels.
4. in approach of; almost; well-nigh: a lad rising sixteen.
–noun
5. the act of a person or thing that rises.
6. an insurrection; rebellion; revolt.
7. something that rises; projection or prominence.
8. a period of leavening of dough preceding baking.
9. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a morbid swelling, as an abscess or boil.
10. Also called riser. Nautical. a stringer supporting the thwarts of an open boat.