Found 4 items, similar to raise.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: raise menaikkan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: raise anggung, angkat, banyaki, kenaikkan gaji, membangkitkan, membesarkan, membubungkan, membuntangkan, memperbanyak, memperbanyaki, mendidik, menegakkan, mengambung-ambungkan, mengangkat, mengangkatkan, meninggikan, perbanyaki
English → English (WordNet) Definition: raise raise n 1: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise“; ”he got a wage hike" [syn: rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase , salary increase] 2: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); “the car couldn't make it up the rise” [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, climb, upgrade] [ant: descent] 3: increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); “I'll see your raise and double it” 4: the act of raising something; “he responded with a lift of his eyebrow”; “fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up” [syn: lift, heave] raise v 1: raise the level or amount of something; “raise my salary”; “raise the price of bread” 2: raise from a lower to a higher position; “Raise your hands”; “Lift a load” [syn: lift, elevate, get up, bring up] [ant: lower] 3: cause to be heard or known; express or utter; “raise a shout”; “raise a protest”; “raise a sad cry” 4: collect funds for a specific purpose; “The President raised several million dollars for his college” 5: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; “The Bordeaux region produces great red wines”; “They produce good ham in Parma”; “We grow wheat here”; “We raise hogs here” [syn: grow, farm, produce] 6: bring up; “raise a family”; “bring up children” [syn: rear, bring up, nurture, parent] 7: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; “raise the specter of unemployment”; “he conjured wild birds in the air”; “stir a disturbance”; “call down the spirits from the mountain” [syn: conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth] 8: move upwards; “lift one's eyes” [syn: lift] 9: construct, build, or erect; “Raise a barn” [syn: erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: level] 10: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); “arouse pity”; “raise a smile”; “evoke sympathy” [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, provoke] 11: create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; “raise hell”; “raise the roof”; “raise Cain” 12: raise in rank or condition; “The new law lifted many people from poverty” [syn: lift, elevate] 13: increase; “This will enhance your enjoyment”; “heighten the tension” [syn: enhance, heighten] 14: give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; “John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired”; “Women tend not to advance in the major law firms”; “I got promoted after many years of hard work” [syn: promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, elevate] [ant: demote] 15: cause to puff up with a leaven; “unleavened bread” [syn: leaven, prove] 16: in bridge: bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level 17: bet more than the previous player 18: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; “raise an army”; “recruit new soldiers” [syn: recruit, levy] 19: put forward for consideration or discussion; “raise the question of promotions”; “bring up an unpleasant topic” [syn: bring up] 20: pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; "raise your `o'" 21: activate or stir up; “raise a mutiny” 22: establish radio communications with; “They managed to raise Hanoi last night” 23: multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3 24: bring (a surface, a design, etc.) into relief and cause to project; “raised edges” 25: invigorate or heighten; “lift my spirits”; “lift his ego” [syn: lift] 26: put an end to; “lift a ban”; “raise a siege” [syn: lift] 27: cause to become alive again; “raise from the dead”; “Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected”; “Upraising ghosts” [syn: resurrect, upraise]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Raise Raise \Raise\ (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raised (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Raising.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[=i]sa to rise. See Rise, and cf. Rear to raise.] [1913 Webster] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: [1913 Webster] (a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. [1913 Webster] This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] (b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. [1913 Webster] (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: [1913 Webster] (a) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. [1913 Webster] They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. [1913 Webster] (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. [1913 Webster] He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [1913 Webster] [AE]neas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. [1913 Webster] Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. [1913 Webster] 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. [1913 Webster] I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxix. 3. [1913 Webster] (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. “To raise up a rent.” --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. “He raised sheep.” “He raised wheat where none grew before.” --Johnson's Dict. [1913 Webster] Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise is also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. [1913 Webster] I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding. [1913 Webster] (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. [1913 Webster] I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18. [1913 Webster] God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1. [1913 Webster] (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. [1913 Webster] Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. [1913 Webster] 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. [1913 Webster] Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets. [1913 Webster] 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it. --Burrill. [1913 Webster] To raise a blockade (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure. To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.] To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite. [1913 Webster]