intransitive verb. To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.

intransitive verb. To get out of bed.

intransitive verb. To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend.

intransitive verb. To increase in size, volume, or level.

intransitive verb. To increase in number, amount, or value.

intransitive verb. To increase in intensity, force, or speed.

intransitive verb. To increase in pitch or volume.

intransitive verb. To ascend above the horizon.

intransitive verb. To extend upward; be prominent.

intransitive verb. To slant or slope upward.

intransitive verb. To come into existence; originate.

intransitive verb. To be erected.

intransitive verb. To appear at the surface of the water or the earth; emerge.

intransitive verb. To puff up or become larger; swell up.

intransitive verb. To become stiff and erect.

intransitive verb. To attain a higher status.

intransitive verb. To become apparent to the mind or senses.

intransitive verb. To uplift oneself to meet a demand or challenge.

intransitive verb. To return to life.

intransitive verb. To rebel.

intransitive verb. To close a session of an official assembly; adjourn.

intransitive verb. To cause to rise.

intransitive verb. To cause (a distant object at sea) to become visible above the horizon by advancing closer.

noun. The act of rising; an ascent.

noun. The degree of elevation or ascent.

noun. The first appearance of a celestial object as it ascends above the horizon.

noun. An increase in height, as of the level of water.

noun. A gently sloped hill.

noun. A long broad elevation that slopes gently from the earth's surface or the ocean floor.

noun. An origin, beginning, or source.

noun. Occasion or opportunity.

noun. The emergence of a fish seeking food or bait at the water's surface.

noun. An increase in price, worth, quantity, or degree.

noun. An increase in intensity, volume, or pitch.

noun. Elevation in status, prosperity, or importance.

noun. The height of a flight of stairs or of a single riser.

noun. An increase in salary or wages; a raise.

noun. An angry or irritated reaction.

noun. The distance between the crotch and waistband in pants, shorts, or underwear.

noun. In base-ball, a peculiar delivery of the ball which makes it rise so that the tendency of the batsman is to strike under it.

noun. The difference in diameter, or taper, between two points in a log.

noun. The act of rising; ascent: as, the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of water in a river; the rise of mercury in a barometer.

noun. Elevation; degree of ascent: as, the rise of a hill or a road.

noun. Any place elevated above the common level; a rising ground: as, a rise of land.

noun. Spring; source; origin; beginning: as, the rise of a stream in a mountain.

noun. Appearance above the horizon: as, the rise of the sun or a star.

noun. Increase; advance: said of price: as, a rise in (the price of) stocks or wheat.

noun. Elevation in rank, reputation, wealth, or importance; mental or moral elevation.

noun. Increase of sound; swell.

noun. Height to which one can rise mentally or spiritually; elevation possible to thought or feeling.

"_That the sun will not rise to-morrow_, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, _that it will rise_."