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rising
(gcide) | 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
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2. same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental.
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3. (Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of
decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo
]
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rising prices
(encz) | rising prices, n: |
rising slope
(encz) | rising slope, n: |
rising tide
(encz) | rising tide, n: |
rising trend
(encz) | rising trend,stoupající tendence Zdeněk Brožrising trend,vzestupná tendence Zdeněk Brož |
rising trot
(encz) | rising trot, n: |
salt-rising bread
(encz) | salt-rising bread, n: |
self-rising flour
(encz) | self-rising flour, n: |
Rising main
(gcide) | Rising \Ris"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
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2. That which rises; a tumor; a boil. --Lev. xiii. 10.
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Rising main (Waterworks), the pipe through which water from
an engine is delivered to an elevated reservoir.
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rising sun
(gcide) | Sunset \Sun"set"\, Sunsetting \Sun"set`ting\, n.
1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time
when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively.
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'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
--Campbell.
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2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west.
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Sunset shell (Zool.), a West Indian marine bivalve
(Tellina radiata) having a smooth shell marked with
radiating bands of varied colors resembling those seen at
sunset or before sunrise; -- called also rising sun.
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rising prices
(wn) | rising prices
n 1: a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation
everything gets more valuable except money" [syn:
inflation, rising prices] [ant: deflation,
disinflation] |
rising slope
(wn) | rising slope
n 1: the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
[syn: upgrade, rise, rising slope] |
rising tide
(wn) | rising tide
n 1: the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and
the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men
which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
-Shakespeare [syn: flood tide, flood, rising tide]
[ant: ebbtide] |
rising trot
(wn) | rising trot
n 1: the rider rises from the saddle every second stride [ant:
sitting trot] |
salt-rising bread
(wn) | salt-rising bread
n 1: white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a
mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp |
self-rising flour
(wn) | self-rising flour
n 1: a commercially prepared mixture of flour and salt and a
leavening agent [syn: self-rising flour, {self-raising
flour}] |
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