Raising

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; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.]

3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n., 2. [U.S.] W. Irving. -- Raising hammer, a hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal. -- Raising plate (Carp.), the plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.

The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: the event of something being raised upward
  Synonyms: elevation, lift

Meaning #2: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
  Synonyms: rearing, nurture

Meaning #3: raising someone to be an accepted member of the community
  Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, rearing, upbringing

The adjective raising has one meaning:

Meaning #1: increasing in quantity or value

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Raising may refer to:

• Raising (linguistics), a grammatical construction
• Raising (metalwork), a metalworking technique

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