Raising

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rais=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Raising, n. 

•  The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.  [1913 Webster]
•  Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.  [1913 Webster]
•  The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.  [1913 Webster]

Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n., 2. [U.S.] W. Irving. -- Raising hammer, a hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal. -- Raising plate (Carp.), the plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.

THESAURUS

Raising

addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ampliation, amplification, apotheosis, apprenticeship, architecture, ascent, assembly, assumption, augmentation, barmy, basic training, beatification, breaking, breeding, broadening, building, canonization, casting, composition, conditioning, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crescendo, cultivation, deification, deployment, development, devising, diastatic, discipline, dispersion, drill, drilling, elaboration, elevation, enlargement, enshrinement, enzymic, erecting, erection, escalation, exaltation, exercise, expansion, extension, extraction, fabrication, fanning out, fashioning, fermenting, fetching-up, flare, formation, forming, formulation, fostering, framing, green thumb, grooming, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, heaving up, height, hiking, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, increase, leavening, lifting, lofting, machining, magnification, making, manual training, manufacture, manufacturing, military training, milling, mining, molding, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, readying, rearing, refining, rehearsal, shaping, sloyd, smelting, splay, spread, spreading, standing on end, sursum corda, training, upbringing, upbuoying, upcast, upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, upraising, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust, vocational education, vocational training, widening, working, workmanship, yeasty

ROGET THESAURUS

Raising

Elevation

N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.