to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself
2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, pages 29-30:
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 to raise 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.
The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!
(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.
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 years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost.[…], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter[…]; [a]nd Matthias Walker,[…], →OCLC; republished as Paradise 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 so raised 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 to raise the police.
(poker,intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.
2007, Bruce Bukovics, Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, page 243:
Provide some mechanism in the local service class to raise the event. This might take the form of a public method that the host application can invoke to raise 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, but rear 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 say rear 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) A shaft or a winze 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 to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise 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 underground drifts were left well timbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work.