Raise
(v. t.) To cause to rise |
Raise
(v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation |
Raise
(v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of |
Raise
(v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale |
Raise
(v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture |
Raise
(v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like |
Raise
(v. t.) To rouse to action |
Raise
(v. t.) To bring up from the lower world |
Raise
(v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear |
Raise
(v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts |
Raise
(v. t.) To bring together |
Raise
(v. t.) To cause to grow |
Raise
(v. t.) To bring into being |
Raise
(v. t.) To give rise to |
Raise
(v. t.) To give vent or utterance to |
Raise
(v. t.) To bring to notice |
Raise
(v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven |
Raise
(v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it |
Raise
(v. t.) To let go |
Raise
(v. t.) To create or constitute |
Standard
(n.) A flag |
Standard
(n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality |
Standard
(n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent |
Standard
(n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. |
Standard
(n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. |
Standard
(n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. |
Standard
(n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold |
Standard
(n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. |
Standard
(n.) The sheth of a plow. |
Standard
(n.) A large drinking cup. |
Standard
(a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment |
Standard
(a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value |
Standard
(a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall |
Standard
(a.) Not of the dwarf kind |
Standard-bred
(a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. |
Standard-wing
(n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. |
lift
raise
heave | the act of raising something, he responded with a lift of his eyebrow, fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up |
| raise | increasing the size of a bet (as in poker), I'll see your raise and double it |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
| standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
| standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
| standard banner | any distinctive flag |
| standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
| standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
| standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission
stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
raise
rise wage hike
hike
wage increase
salary increase | the amount a salary is increased, he got a % raise, he got a wage hike |
| gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
criterion
standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged, they live by the standards of their community |
accounting principle
accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
| standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
American Standard Version
American Revised Version | a revised version of the King James Version |
| Revised Standard Version | a revision of the American Standard Version |
Standard and Poor's
Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
| double standard | an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another |
| double standard of sexual behavior | a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women) |
standard generalized markup language
SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
| non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
standard
criterion
measure touchstone | a basis for comparison, a reference point against which other things can be evaluated, the schools comply with federal standards, they set the measure for all subsequent work |
procrustean standard
procrustean rule
procrustean bed | a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality |
ascent
acclivity
rise
raise
climb
upgrade | an upward slope or grade (as in a road), the car couldn't make it up the rise |
color bearer
standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
| standard-bearer | an outstanding leader of a political movement |
standard
monetary standard | the value behind the money in a monetary system |
| gold standard | a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold |
| silver standard | a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of silver |
| standard | a board measure board feet |
candle
candela
cd
standard candle | the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites, equal to
of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of , degrees Kelvin |
standard atmosphere
atmosphere
atm
standard pressure | a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercurymm high at sea level and
degrees centigrade |
| standard temperature | exactly zero degrees centigrade |
gauge
standard of measurement | accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared |
standard of living
standard of life | a level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group, they enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country, the lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system |
civil time
standard time
local time | the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth), established by law or custom |
Atlantic Time
Atlantic Standard Time | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian, used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime Provinces |
Eastern Time
Eastern Standard Time
EST | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian, used in the eastern United States |
Central Time
Central Standard Time
CST | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian, used in the central United States |
Mountain Time
Mountain Standard Time
MST | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian west, used in the mountain states of the United States |
Pacific Time
Pacific Standard Time
PST | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian west, used in far western states of the United States |
Alaska Standard Time
Yukon Time | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian west, used in Hawaii and most of Alaska |
Hawaii Time
Hawaii Standard Time | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian west, used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands |
Bering Time
Bering Standard Time | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian west, used in the Midway Islands |
resurrect
raise
upraise | cause to become alive again, raise from the dead, Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected, Upraising ghosts |
| raise | raise the level or amount of something, raise my salary, raise the price of bread |
enhance
heighten
raise | increase, This will enhance your enjoyment, heighten the tension |