How to pronounce “raising”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• present participle and gerund of raise
• [Noun]
• Elevation.
• Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
• Recruitment.
• Collection or gathering, especially of money.
• (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
• (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
• (linguistics, phonetics) 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 operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
• The substance used to make bread rise.
• The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
• The action of placing something at a higher level.

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