What is the meaning of raising?

noun

• The event of something being raised upward.
  • usage: "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
  • synonyms: elevation, lift
• The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child.
  • synonyms: rearing, nurture
• Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.
  • usage: "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
  • synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, rearing, upbringing

verb

• Raise the level or amount of something.
  • usage: "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"
  • synonyms: raise
• Raise from a lower to a higher position.
  • usage: "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
  • synonyms: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
• Cause to be heard or known; express or utter.
  • usage: "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry"
  • synonyms: raise
• Collect funds for a specific purpose.
  • usage: "The President raised several million dollars for his college"
  • synonyms: raise
• Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques.
  • usage: "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
  • synonyms: grow, raise, farm, produce
• Bring up.
  • usage: "raise a family"; "bring up children"
  • synonyms: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent
• Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.
  • usage: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
  • synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
• Move upwards.
  • usage: "lift one's eyes"
  • synonyms: lift, raise
• Construct, build, or erect.
  • usage: "Raise a barn"
  • synonyms: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up
• Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses. )
  • usage: "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
  • synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
• Create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise.
  • usage: "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"
  • synonyms: raise
• Raise in rank or condition.
  • usage: "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
  • synonyms: lift, raise, elevate
• Increase.
  • usage: "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"
  • synonyms: enhance, heighten, raise
• Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.
  • usage: "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
  • synonyms: promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
• Cause to puff up with a leaven.
  • usage: "unleavened bread"
  • synonyms: raise, leaven, prove
• Bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level.
  • synonyms: raise
• Bet more than the previous player.
  • synonyms: raise
• Cause to assemble or enlist in the military.
  • usage: "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
  • synonyms: recruit, levy, raise
• Put forward for consideration or discussion.
  • usage: "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic"
  • synonyms: raise, bring up
• Pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth.
  • usage: "raise your `o'"
  • synonyms: raise
• Activate or stir up.
  • usage: "raise a mutiny"
  • synonyms: raise
• Establish radio communications with.
  • usage: "They managed to raise Hanoi last night"
  • synonyms: raise
• Multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3.
  • synonyms: raise
• Bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project.
  • usage: "raised edges"
  • synonyms: raise
• Invigorate or heighten.
  • usage: "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
  • synonyms: raise, lift
• Put an end to.
  • usage: "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
  • synonyms: lift, raise
• Cause to become alive again.
  • usage: "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
  • synonyms: resurrect, raise, upraise

adjective

• Increasing in quantity or value.
  • usage: "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"