Crossword clues for rising
rising
- Go up or advance
- Be promoted, move to a better position
- Organized opposition to authority
- Insurrection
- Mounting a revolt
- Revolution daring to depose king
- Discovering it sends homeowner up the wall
- Going up
- On the way up
- Getting up
- On the up-and-up?
- On the increase
- Greeting the day
- Tom Clancy's "Red Storm ___"
- On the assent
- On the ascent
- On an upswing
- Heading up
- Gaining altitude
- Expanding (of dough)
- Being affected by yeast
- "Bad Moon ___" (Creedence Clearwater Revival song)
- "Bad Moon ___" (1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit)
- On the upswing
- Ascendant
- On the upturn
- Come up, of celestial bodies
- Of dough
- Become heartened or elated
- Exert oneself to meet a challenge
- Take part in a rebellion
- Renounce a former allegiance
- Of substances
- Get up from a sitting or lying position
- Return from the dead
- Take on form or shape
- Increase in volume
- Grow in volume, as under the influence of heat or fermentation
- Move upward
- A movement upward
- Get up and out of bed
- A conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
- Increase in value or to a higher point
- Come to the surface
- Become more extreme
- Come into existence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
increasing \increasing\ adj.
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
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same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental.
(Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "resurrection, act of one who rises," verbal noun from rise (v.). Of heavenly bodies from mid-14c. Meaning "a getting up from bed" is c.1400. Sense of "insurrection" is late 14c.
1540s, present participle adjective from rise (v.).
Wiktionary
going up n. 1 rebellion 2 The act of something that rises. 3 (context US dated English) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment. prep. (context US slang dated English) More than; exceeding; upwards of. v
(present participle of rise English)
WordNet
adj. advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status; "a rising trend"; "a rising market" [ant: falling]
(of a heavenly body) becoming visible above the horizon; "the rising sun" [ant: setting]
increasing in amount or degree; "rising prices"
sloping upward [syn: acclivitous, uphill]
coming to maturity; "the rising generation" [syn: emerging]
newly come into prominence; "a rising young politician"
n. a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall]
organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, uprising]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Rising may refer to:
- Rising, a stage in baking - see Proofing (baking technique)
- Elevation
- Short for Uprising, a rebellion
"Rising" is the pilot episode for season one of the military science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, a Canadian-American spin off series of Stargate SG-1. The episodes were written by executive producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, the episodes were directed by Martin Wood. The episodes is the series strongest episode to date in season 1 (and the whole series) on Nielsen household ratings. The episode got strong reviews from major media publishers worldwide.
"Rising" is about the establishment of the Atlantis expedition, it follows Major John Sheppard ( Joe Flanigan) and Colonel Marshall Sumner ( Robert Patrick) and their mission to the Pegasus Galaxy in part one. The second part is about the awakening of the Wraith and freeing prisoners of war from them. The pilot has various guest stars from Stargate SG-1 as for example Jack O'Neill ( Richard Dean Anderson) and Siler ( Dan Shea) among others.
Rising is a 1996 album by avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. Released on 18 January, on Capitol Records, it features the backing band IMA (Japanese for "Now"), which included Ono's son Sean Lennon, Timo Ellis, and Sam Koppelman. The album has sold 11,000 copies in the US to date.
Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from British singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on Permanent Records in 1990 (LP and CD). The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom. Rising was retitled The Classics Live in the United States, 25 Years in Concert in Europe and Atlantis in the UK for marketing reasons. Since the release of Rising, there have been many reissues of the songs from the album under many different titles (see release history below).
Rising was supposedly recorded sporadically from 1982 through 1986 at various live concerts during different world tours. However, after careful research the songs on the album came from are revealed as a U.S. tour in 1971 and from the Cambridge Folk Festival of 1981.
Rising is the third album by Atlanta rap metal group Stuck Mojo. Unlike the previous two, this album found considerable mainstream success, most likely due to the music video for the song "Rising", which featured members of WCW Diamond Dallas Page, Raven and The Flock. This video received considerable airplay as well as being played on WCW Monday Nitro. The WCW United States Championship belt is pictured on the cover.
Rising sold over 3 million copies, becoming Century Media's highest selling album until 2004, when Lacuna Coil's album Comalies broke that record. This album features a slightly larger lean towards hip hop, a notable exception after the aggressive Pigwalk album.
Rising is the fourth album by Taiwanese power metal band Seraphim. Released in Taiwan on June, 2007. This album is available in both Chinese & English.
Rising is the eleventh studio album by the American hard rock band Great White, released in 2009. It was recorded in the winter of 2008 with completion in early 2009. Rising was mixed, produced, and engineered by Michael Lardie with all members of the group contributing to the final mix. This is the final album with long-time singer Jack Russell before the split that led to the creation of his own-fronted version of the band.
Rising is the fourth studio album by Australian punk rock band The Go Set.
Rising (also known as Rainbow Rising) is the second studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow, released in 1976. In issue 4 of Kerrang! magazine, Rising was voted the greatest heavy metal album of all time.
Usage examples of "rising".
Scott Velie commenced his prepared speech as he sat, holding in abeyance his moment for rising, which was timed to occur at the delivery of a key sentence halfway into his brief statement.
I twisted the descendeur and abseiled down for what had to be the last time, wet blisters rising and bursting on my ungloved hand.
Asia, the drowning of many productive lowland farming areas by rising sea levels, and the pollution of aquifers and the acidification or drying of freshwater lakes.
Looking at it rising across the valley, the straight high walls and towers adazzle in the blinding light, it seemed less a city than an enormous jewel: a monstrous ornament carved of whitest ivory and nestled against the black surrounding mountains, or a colossal milk-coloured moonstone set upon the dusty green of the valley to shimmer gently in the heat haze of a blistering summer day.
Lord John Russell simply moved that the house at its rising should adjourn to the Monday following.
I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the height of his advancement and keeping pace in all ways with the duties that come upon him.
Beyond the five low points of the dead volcanoes on the black horizon, against the fading greenish afterglow, the New Moon was rising.
But the rising sedition was appeased by the authority and eloquence of the general: and he represented to the assembled troops the obligation of justice, the importance of discipline, the rewards of piety and virtue, and the unpardonable guilt of murder, which, in his apprehension, was aggravated rather than excused by the vice of intoxication.
I reached the Col de la Faucille at sunset, when, for a few minutes, the Mont Blanc and Aiguille Verte showed themselves in dull red light, but were buried again, before the sun was quite down, in the rising deluge of cloud-poison.
His people rising, Mohandas was halfway to the doorway, and Aiken was half-tempted to let him go.
The windows of the aisle are delicately moulded with capitals to their shafts, and are ornamented with a crocketed gable, ogee-shaped and topped with a prominent finial rising just above the battlements of the aisle.
Belmore laughed, and Alanine could feel the color rising in her cheeks.
Belmore laughed, and Alayne could feel the color rising in her cheeks.
ALAYNE A s the rising sun came streaming through the windows, Alayne sat up in bed and stretched.
As I looked from the albergo I could see a gradation of colours, from the purple red to the deepest of sea blue, rising like an immense tent from the dark green of the trees and the fields, here and there dotted with little white houses, with their red roofs, while in front the Luzzara Tower rose majestically in the twilight.