What is "raising"

increasing \increasing\ adj.

1. becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] {decreasing

2. same as growing, 1. [prenominal]

   Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental.

3. (Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ]

mid-14c., "an act of elevating," verbal noun from raise (v.). Specifically in American English, "the erecting of a building," by 1650s.\n\nRAISING. In New England and the Northern States, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.

[Webster, 1830]

n. 1 Elevation. 2 Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity 3 Recruitment. 4 Collection or gathering, especially of money. 5 (context US English) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building. 6 The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. vb. (present participle of raise English)

adj. increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"

1. n. the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: elevation, lift]

2. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child [syn: rearing, nurture]

3. raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, rearing, upbringing]

In linguistics, raising constructions involve the movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause; in other words, a raising predicate/ verb appears with a syntactic argument that is not its semantic argument, but is rather the semantic argument of an embedded predicate. Although English has raising constructions, not all languages do.

The term raising has its origins in the transformational analysis of such constructions; the constituent in question is seen as being "raised" from its initial, deep structure position as the subject of the embedded predicate to its surface structure position in the matrix predicate/verb. Raising predicates/verbs are related to control predicates, although there are important differences between the two predicate/verb types.

Raising may refer to:

• Raising (linguistics), a syntactic construction
• Raising (phonology), a sound change
• Raising (metalwork), a metalworking technique
• Barn raising, a community event to erect the wooden framework for a building
• Fund raising, a method of raising money, usually for non-profits and schools

Raising is a metalworking technique whereby sheet metal is formed over a stake or other solid object by repeated 'courses' of hammering and annealing. The sheet metal, held at an angle to the stake, is formed using mechanical advantage by hammering just in front of the contact point. When executed correctly raising allows the smith to efficiently shape the metal without thinning thus avoiding the risk of cracking, a common occurrence with parallel forming processes such as sinking or stretching. In raising the metal at the edge of the sheet is compressed and thickened as the form is necked in. This technique is an essential part of silversmithing and is used to create seamless vessels such as vases, cups, bowls, carafes, pitchers, euers, etc.

In traditional raising, sometimes referred to as Synclastic raising, the dominant curves of the object being forged are at right angles and move in the same direction; as in a bowl. This results in a surface possessing elliptic geometry.

Anticlastic raising, on the other hand, refers to shaping an object where the dominant axes move in opposite directions; a familiar example of this is a potato chip. This results in a surface possessing hyperbolic geometry.

In phonology and phonetics, raising is a sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before. The opposite effect is known as lowering. Raising or lowering may be triggered by a nearby sound, in which case they are a form of assimilation, or they may occur on their own.

In i-mutation, a front vowel is raised before or . This is assimilation.

In the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek and in Koine Greek, close-mid were raised to . This change occurred in all cases and was not triggered by a nearby front consonant or vowel. Later, Ancient Greek was raised to become Koine Greek and then . For more information, see

In Czech, the alveolar trill was raised before to become the raised alveolar trill , spelled as in . This is a form of palatalization, and it also occurred in Polish, where it became a simple sibilant fricative (spelled ) around the 16th century. The pronunciation is considered to be non-standard, and is used only by some older speakers.