RISE

Rise

"Rise" is a popular single by Gabrielle. It was her second number one single in the UK . The song was the title-track and second single from her third studio album.

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RISE

RISE was a professional wrestling stable that competed in New Japan Pro Wrestling and was led by Shinsuke Nakamura. The group was a spinoff group of BLACK which also featured Nakamura as a co-leader with Masahiro Chono and featured Giant Bernard, Travis Tomko, and Milano Collection AT as members.

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rise

Noun

  1. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
    The rise of the tide.
    There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
    Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
  2. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
    The rise of the working class.
    The rise of the printing press.
    The rise of the feminists.
  3. An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
  4. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
    The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
  5. An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise.
    The governor just gave me a rise of 2-pounds-6.
  6. A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  7. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

Verb

  1. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
    1. To move upwards.
    2. To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
    3. To slope upward.
    4. To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
    5. To become erect; to assume an upright position.
    6. To leave one's bed; to get up.
      1. To be resurrected.
    7. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
      1. To increase in value or standing.
    8. To attain a higher status.
      1. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
  1. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
  2. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
  1. To begin; to develop.
    1. To develop.
      1. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
    2. To have its source (in a particular place).
      1. To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
    3. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
      1. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
  1. To retire; to give up a siege.
  1. To come; to offer itself.
  2. To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.


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