From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rise \Rise\ (r[imac]z), v. i. [imp. {Rose} (r[=o]z); p. p.
{Risen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rising}.] [AS. r[imac]san; akin to
OS. r[imac]san, D. rijzen, OHG. r[imac]san to rise, fall,
Icel. r[imac]sa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF.
{Arise}, {Raise}, {Rear}, v.]
1. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to
mount up. Specifically:
(a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any
other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a
fish rises to the bait.
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(b) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in
air, cork in water, and the like.
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(c) To move upward under the influence of a projecting
force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
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(d) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this
elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
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(e) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or
bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the
mercury rises in the thermometer.
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(f) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to
rise from a chair or from a fall.
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(g) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
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He that would thrive, must rise by five. --Old
Proverb.
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(h) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far
above the sea.
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(i) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises
in this direction. "A rising ground." --Dryden.
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(j) To retire; to give up a siege.
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He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . .
was gone. --Knolles.
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(k) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to
become light, as dough, and the like.
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2. To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically:
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(a) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars,
and the like. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil
and the good." --Matt. v. 45.
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(b) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come
forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin;
the land rises to view to one sailing toward the
shore.
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(c) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as,
a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
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(d) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as,
rivers rise in lakes or springs.
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A scepter shall rise out of Israel. --Num. xxiv.
17.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope.
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3. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a
climax. Specifically:
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(a) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a
storm, and hence, of passion. "High winde . . . began
to rise, high passions -- anger, hate." --Milton.
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(b) To become of higher value; to increase in price.
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Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the
ounce. --Locke.
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(c) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor,
and the like.
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(d) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
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(e) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
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(f) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses
rose beyond his expectations.
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4. In various figurative senses. Specifically:
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(a) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war;
to take up arms; to rebel.
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At our heels all hell should rise
With blackest insurrection. --Milton.
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No more shall nation against nation rise.
--Pope.
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(b) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted;
to excel; to succeed.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
--Shak.
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(c) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to
increase in interest or power; -- said of style,
thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of
expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in
interest.
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(d) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
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A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men
of contemplative natures. --Spectator.
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(e) To come; to offer itself.
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There chanced to the prince's hand to rise
An ancient book. --Spenser.
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5. To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
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But now is Christ risen from the dead. --1. Cor. xv.
20.
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6. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the
committee rose after agreeing to the report.
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It was near nine . . . before the House rose.
--Macaulay.
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7. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as,
to rise a tone or semitone.
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8. (Print.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from
the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; --
said of a form.
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Syn: To arise; mount; ascend; climb; scale.
Usage: {Rise}, {Appreciate}. Some in America use the word
appreciate for "rise in value;" as, stocks appreciate,
money appreciates, etc. This use is not unknown in
England, but it is less common there. It is
undesirable, because rise sufficiently expresses the
idea, and appreciate has its own distinctive meaning,
which ought not to be confused with one so entirely
different.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rose \Rose\,
imp. of {Rise}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rose \Rose\, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. ?,
Armor. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F.
rose, from the Latin. Cf. {Copperas}, {Rhododendron}.]
1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus {Rosa}, of
which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern
hemispere
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Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually
prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild
state have five petals of a color varying from deep
pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and
hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased
and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many
distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the
Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid
perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly
every class.
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2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a
rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. --Sha.
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3. (Arch.) A rose window. See {Rose window}, below.
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4. A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for
delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a
strainer at the foot of a pump.
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5. (Med.) The erysipelas. --Dunglison.
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6. The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card
with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
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7. The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
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8. A diamond. See {Rose diamond}, below.
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{Cabbage rose}, {China rose}, etc. See under {Cabbage},
{China}, etc.
{Corn rose} (Bot.) See {Corn poppy}, under {Corn}.
{Infantile rose} (Med.), a variety of roseola.
{Jamaica rose}. (Bot.) See under {Jamaica}.
{Rose acacia} (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub
({Robinia hispida}) with handsome clusters of rose-colored
blossoms.
{Rose aniline}. (Chem.) Same as {Rosaniline}.
{Rose apple} (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous
tree {Eugenia Jambos}. It is an edible berry an inch or
more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong
roselike perfume.
{Rose beetle}. (Zool.)
(a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle
({Macrodactylus subspinosus}), which eats the leaves
of various plants, and is often very injurious to
rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also
{rose bug}, and {rose chafer}.
(b) The European chafer.
{Rose bug}. (Zool.) same as {Rose beetle}, {Rose chafer}.
{Rose burner}, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped
flame.
{Rose camphor} (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which
separates from rose oil.
{Rose campion}. (Bot.) See under {Campion}.
{Rose catarrh} (Med.), rose cold.
{Rose chafer}. (Zool.)
(a) A common European beetle ({Cetonia aurata}) which is
often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also
{rose beetle}, and {rose fly}.
(b) The rose beetle
(a) .
{Rose cold} (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes
attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See
{Hay fever}, under {Hay}.
{Rose color}, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful
hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or
promise.
{Rose de Pompadour}, {Rose du Barry}, names succesively given
to a delicate rose color used on S[`e]vres porcelain.
{Rose diamond}, a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the
other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges
which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf.
{Brilliant}, n.
{Rose ear}. See under {Ear}.
{Rose elder} (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
{Rose engine}, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe,
by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with
a variety of curved lines. --Craig.
{Rose family} (Bot.) the {Roseceae}. See {Rosaceous}.
{Rose fever} (Med.), rose cold.
{Rose fly} (Zool.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.
{Rose gall} (Zool.), any gall found on rosebushes. See
{Bedeguar}.
{Rose knot}, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to
resemble a rose; a rosette.
{Rose lake}, {Rose madder}, a rich tint prepared from lac and
madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt.
{Rose mallow}. (Bot.)
(a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus
{Hibiscus}, with large rose-colored flowers.
(b) the hollyhock.
{Rose nail}, a nail with a convex, faceted head.
{Rose noble}, an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the
figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward
III., and current at 6s. 8d. --Sir W. Scott.
{Rose of China}. (Bot.) See {China rose}
(b), under {China}.
{Rose of Jericho} (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant
({Anastatica Hierochuntica}) which rolls up when dry, and
expands again when moistened; -- called also {resurrection
plant}.
{Rose of Sharon} (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub
({Hibiscus Syriacus}). In the Bible the name is used for
some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or
possibly the great lotus flower.
{Rose oil} (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from
various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief
part of attar of roses.
{Rose pink}, a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk
or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also,
the color of the pigment.
{Rose quartz} (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
{Rose rash}. (Med.) Same as {Roseola}.
{Rose slug} (Zool.), the small green larva of a black sawfly
({Selandria rosae}). These larvae feed in groups on the
parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often
abundant and very destructive.
{Rose window} (Arch.), a circular window filled with
ornamental tracery. Called also {Catherine wheel}, and
{marigold window}. Cf. {wheel window}, under {Wheel}.
{Summer rose} (Med.), a variety of roseola. See {Roseola}.
{Under the rose} [a translation of L. sub rosa], in secret;
privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the
rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and
hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there
said was to be divulged.
{Wars of the Roses} (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of
York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the
House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rose \Rose\, v. t.
1. To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. [Poetic] "A
maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty."
--Shak.
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2. To perfume, as with roses. [Poetic] --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rose
adj 1: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the
roseate glow of dawn" [syn: {rose}, {roseate},
{rosaceous}]
n 1: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses [syn:
{rose}, {rosebush}]
2: pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed
after fermentation began [syn: {blush wine}, {pink wine},
{rose}, {rose wine}]
3: a dusty pink color [syn: {rose}, {rosiness}]
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]:
ROSE
Remote Operations Service Element (OSI, RPC)
From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]:
rose /ʀoz/
pink; rose
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Rose /roːzə/
rose
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
rose /roze/
pink
From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]:
rose
1. commend; glorify; laud; praise
2. commend; laud; praise
3. rose
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