Associations to the word «Raising»

Wiktionary

RAISING, verb. Present participle of raise
RAISING, noun. Elevation.
RAISING, noun. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
RAISING, noun. Recruitment.
RAISING, noun. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
RAISING, noun. (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
RAISING, noun. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
RAISING AGENT, noun. Any substance added to a food product (such as dough or batter) that makes them rise when cooked; a leavening
RAISING AGENTS, noun. Plural of raising agent

Dictionary definition

RAISING, noun. The event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity".
RAISING, noun. The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child.
RAISING, noun. Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important".
RAISING, adjective. Increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope