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Raise can be a noun or a verb.
raise used as a noun:
- An increase in wages or salary; a rise .
"The boss gave me a raise." - A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- A bet which increased the previous bet.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
raise used as a verb:
- To cause to rise.
"Raise your hand if want to say something." - To collect.
"He raises a lot of money for charity." - To bring up; to grow.
"We visited a farm where they raise chickens." - To respond to an initial bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
"John bet, and Julie raised requiring John to put in more money." - To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
"There should be some consideration (i.e. payment or exchange) to raise a use." - To exponentiate, to involute.
"Two raised to the fifth power equals 32." - To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is raise?
- Noun usage: The boss gave me a raise.
- Verb usage: Raise your hand if want to say something.
- Verb usage: He raises a lot of money for charity.
- Verb usage: We visited a farm where they raise chickens.
- Verb usage: Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?
- Verb usage: John bet, and Julie raised requiring John to put in more money.
- Verb usage: There should be some consideration (i.e. payment or exchange) to raise a use.
- Verb usage: Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of raise are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of raise, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
