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What does rise mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
    1. To move upwards.
    2. To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
    3. To slope upward.
    4. (celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
    5. To become erect; to assume an upright position.
    6. To leave one's bed; to get up.
    7. (figuratively) To be resurrected.
    8. (figuratively) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
  2. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
    1. To attain a higher status.
    2. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
    3. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
    4. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
  3. To begin; to develop.
    1. To develop.
    2. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
    3. (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
    4. To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
    5. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
    6. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
  4. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  5. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
  6. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  7. To come; to offer itself.
  8. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
Noun
  1. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  2. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  3. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
  4. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  5. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
  6. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  7. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
  8. (informal) An angry reaction.
Noun
  1. Alternative form of rice (“twig”)
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