rising

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rise

plural risings

1. Rebellion.
2. The act of something that rises.

   the risings and fallings of a thermometer

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   Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.

   1910, Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies

3. USdatedA dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.

   salt rising

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   milk rising

1. not comparableGoing up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc.
2. not comparablePlanned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.

   Residential colleges at Princeton are “really central to your identity on campus,” especially as a freshman, Ms. Chaffers, who is a rising junior, said in an interview on Saturday.

   2020 June 27, Bryan Pietsch, “Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School”, in The New York Times, retrieved 27 Jun 2020

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   A student in the rising Senior Freshman Class, who may not have passed the preceding Michaelmas Examination, will be allowed to join the School and attend Lectures during Michaelmas Term, for which he will receive credit, on condition that he passes the ensuing Hilary Examination with the Senior Freshman Class.

   1850, The Dublin University Calendar, Trinity College Dublin, page 117

3. not comparablegovernmentHaving its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile.

   Synonyms: rousant, surgerant

1. USdatedslangMore than; exceeding; upwards of.

   Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse.

   1894, Justin Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac

plural Risings

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.