1. Ascending, sloping upward, or advancing: a rising tide.
2. Coming to maturity; emerging: the rising generation.

1. The action of one that rises.
2. An uprising; an insurrection.
3. A prominence or projection.
4. The leaven or yeast used to make dough rise in baking.

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