RAISING definition: a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
Nonetheless, people have been raising children in English since the 1700s, and the usage has been standard for many generations, at least in American English. The Usage Panelists find the use of raise acceptable both for children and for livestock.
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant.
Definition of raising noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about. to set upright: When the projection screen toppled, he quickly raised it again.
Raising is usually a transitive verb, meaning it typically requires an object and implies that someone or something is actively lifting or elevating something else. Conversely, rising is mostly intransitive and describes a self-initiated increase or movement upward without direct external influence.
raising (countable and uncountable, plural raisings) Elevation. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity. Recruitment. Collection or gathering, especially of money. (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
Her parents died when she was a baby and she was raised by her grandparents. The lambs had to be raised by hand (= fed milk by people) when their mother died. The farmer raises (= breeds) chickens and pigs. The soil around here isn't good enough for raising (= growing) crops.