raise

Definitions

1. To cause to rise; to lift or elevate
2. Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
3. A cairn or pile of stones.
4. increase
5. To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect
6. A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
7. first-person singular present indicative of aumentar
8. To cause something to come to the surface of water
9. A bet that increases the previous bet.
10. To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it
11. A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
12. To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven
13. A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.

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Examples

“The boss gave me a raise⟳.”

“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⟳.”

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