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(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
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To move upwards.
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To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
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To slope upward.
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(of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
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To become erect; to assume an upright position.
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To leave one's bed; to get up.
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(figurative) To be resurrected.
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(figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
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(intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
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To attain a higher status.
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Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
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To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
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To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
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To begin; to develop.
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To develop.
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To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
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(of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
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To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
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To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
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To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
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(transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
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(transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
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(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
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To come; to offer itself.
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To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
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The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
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The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
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An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
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The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
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An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
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(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
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An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
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(informal) An angry reaction.
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: - (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
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To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
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To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
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To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
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To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
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To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
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To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
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To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
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To increase in power or fury; - said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
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In various figurative senses.
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To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
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To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
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To become of higher value; to increase in price.
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To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
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To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
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To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
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To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
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To become larger; to swell; - said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
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To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
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To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
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To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
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To increase in intensity; - said of heat.
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To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; - said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
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To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
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To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
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To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
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To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
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To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; - said of a form.
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To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
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To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
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To come; to offer itself.
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To retire; to give up a siege.
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To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
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To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill.
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To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise.
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The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
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The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
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Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
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Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
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Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
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Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
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Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
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Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
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The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
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a growth in strength or number or importance
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the act of changing location in an upward direction
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an upward slope or grade (as in a road);
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a movement upward;
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the amount a salary is increased;
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the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
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a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost;
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an increase in cost;
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increase in price or value;
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move upward;
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increase in value or to a higher point;
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rise to one's feet;
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rise up;
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come to the surface
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become more extreme;
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come into existence; take on form or shape;
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be promoted, move to a better position
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go up or advance;
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get up and out of bed;
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rise in rank or status;
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increase in volume;
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become heartened or elated;
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exert oneself to meet a challenge;
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take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
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come up, of celestial bodies;
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return from the dead;
Wakeverb
(intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
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(transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
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To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
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To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
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To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
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To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
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To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
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(obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
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(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
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The act of waking, or state of being awake.
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The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
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A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
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An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
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The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
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The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
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(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
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A number of vultures assembled together.
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The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
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The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
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The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
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An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
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The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
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To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
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To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
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To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; - often with up.
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To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
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To rouse from sleep; to awake.
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To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
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To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
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To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
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the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event);
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an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
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the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward;
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a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial;
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be awake, be alert, be there
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stop sleeping;
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arouse or excite feelings and passions;
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make aware of;
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cause to become awake or conscious;
Wake
In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be: the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary blunt body, caused by viscosity, which may be accompanied by flow separation and turbulence, or the wave pattern on the water surface downstream of an object in a flow, or produced by a moving object (e.g. a ship), caused by density differences of the fluids above and below the free surface and gravity (or surface tension).