# raising

Pronunciation: say "RAY-zing" /ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of raise. — present participle and gerund of raise
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of raise. Use it for the act of lifting or growing something happening now.
   - _Volunteers are raising funds to repair the old bridge._
   - _Raising livestock demands attention every single day._

## Noun

2. The nurturing and cultivation of a living thing, providing food and protection from conception to maturity.
   - Simple: The work of caring for a living thing as it grows, from birth until it is fully grown.
   - _The raising of a foal demands patience through its first vulnerable years._
   - _She credited her steady character to a careful, loving raising._
3. The act of moving or placing something at a higher level.
   - Simple: The act of putting something into a higher position.
   - _The raising of the drawbridge sealed the castle against attack._
   - _Engineers oversaw the raising of the satellite into a higher orbit._
4. Elevation, or the condition of being lifted to a greater height.
   - Simple: The state of being lifted up, or the height that something reaches.
   - _The gradual raising of the terrain offered a sweeping view of the valley below._
   - _Geologists studied the steady raising of the coastline over millennia._
5. The collection or gathering of something together, especially money.
   - Simple: The act of collecting money or gathering things together.
   - _The raising of capital delayed the project until investors finally committed._
   - _Their relentless raising of donations rebuilt the burned-out library._
6. The recruitment or gathering of people, especially for military service.
   - Simple: The act of gathering people to join a group, such as an army.
   - _The raising of an expeditionary force required months of careful organization._
   - _Wartime raising of volunteers swelled the ranks within weeks._
7. The work of setting up the structural frame of a building. *(US)*
   - Simple: The work of putting up the wooden frame of a building.
   - _The raising of the timber frame was finished before the autumn rains._
   - _A whole community turned out for the barn raising on Saturday morning._
8. A leavening substance used to make bread dough rise.
   - Simple: A substance, such as yeast, that makes bread rise.
   - _The baker stirred a spoonful of raising into the warm flour mixture._
   - _Old recipes called for homemade raising kept alive from batch to batch._
9. The forming of sheet metal into cup-shaped, hollow, or embossed articles by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
   - Simple: The shaping of sheet metal into hollow or raised shapes by hammering or stamping it.
   - _The raising of the chalice demanded a craftsman who could work the metal evenly._
   - _Modern workshops favor machine spinning over the slow raising of earlier silversmiths._
10. In grammar, the movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause into a main clause.
   - Simple: In grammar, the moving of a word from an inner part of a sentence to the main part.
   - _Linguists point to raising in sentences like "She appears to know the answer."_
   - _Subject raising distinguishes verbs like "seem" from control verbs like "try."_
11. A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher, the tongue moving more elevated or closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
   - Simple: A change in how a sound is spoken, with the tongue moving higher in the mouth.
   - _The raising of the long vowel pushed its old pronunciation toward a higher quality._
   - _Canadian raising affects diphthongs before voiceless consonants._
12. The deepening or intensifying of colors during the dyeing process.
   - Simple: Making colors deeper and richer when dyeing cloth.
   - _The dyer judged the raising of the shade by holding the cloth to the light._
   - _Repeated immersion handled the raising of the fabric to its final rich tone._

## Origin

Inherited from Middle English reysynge, equivalent to raise plus the suffix -ing.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/raising (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).