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RISING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
Synonyms:
insurrection; rebellion; revolt; rising; uprising
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rising" is a kind of...):
battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rising"):
insurgence; insurgency (an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict)
intifada; intifadah (an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000)
mutiny (open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers))
Instance hyponyms:
Great Revolt; Peasant's Revolt (a widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England; suppressed by Richard II)
Indian Mutiny; Sepoy Mutiny (discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858; the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow))
Derivation:
rise (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A movement upward
Example:
they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon
Synonyms:
ascension; ascent; rise; rising
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rising" is a kind of...):
change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rising"):
climb; climbing; mounting (an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.))
elevation; lift; raising (the event of something being raised upward)
heave; heaving (an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling))
liftoff (the initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad)
rapid climb; rapid growth; zoom (a rapid rise)
takeoff (the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne)
upheaval; uplift; upthrow; upthrust ((geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building))
uplifting (the rise of something)
Derivation:
rise (move upward)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Newly come into prominence
Example:
a rising young politician
Classified under:
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Coming to maturity
Example:
the rising generation
Synonyms:
emerging; rising
Classified under:
Similar:
future (yet to be or coming)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Sloping upward
Synonyms:
acclivitous; rising; uphill
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
ascending (moving or going or growing upward)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status
Example:
a rising market
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
improving; up (getting higher or more vigorous)
Antonym:
falling (becoming lower or less in degree or value)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rise
Context examples:
“Ha!” thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the window, “after all I cannot prevent the sun rising.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Certainly,” answered my friend, rising from his chair.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I’ve wasted time enough,” said Lestrade, rising.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The same is true if you have Pisces rising at three degrees.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He ceased swimming, but the moment he felt the water rising above his mouth the hands struck out sharply with a lifting movement.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
All night I steered, without relief, the wind slowly and steadily increasing and the sea rising.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They knew, of course, they must go straight east, toward the rising sun; and they started off in the right way.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Thousands of previously uncharted mountains rising from the seafloor, called seamounts, have emerged through the map, along with new clues about the formation of the continents.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
The night was stormy; the wind had been rising at intervals the whole afternoon; and by the time the party broke up, it blew and rained violently.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But his spirits were soon rising again, and with laughing eyes, after mentioning the expected return of the Campbells, he named the name of Dixon.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
