Raising
Rais´ing Pronunciation: rāz´ĭng
| n. | 1. | The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. | |||||||||
| 2. | Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; | ||||||||||
| 3. | The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
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| Noun | 1. |  raising - the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" |
| 2. |  raising - the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | |
| 3. | raising - raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" | |
| Adj. | 1. | raising - increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate" |