Synonyms for raisings
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rey-zing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈreɪ zɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for raisings Other synonyms for the word raisings
- accession
- accretion
- addition
- adopting
- advance
- agrology
- agronomics
- agronomy
- ancestry
- architecture
- arrangement
- assembly
- augmentation
- boosting
- build
- buildup
- bump
- cast
- civility
- composition
- conception
- conduct
- constitution
- contour
- courtesy
- cultivation
- culture
- cut
- deepening
- disposition
- edifice
- elevation
- enlargement
- erecting
- erection
- exaggeration
- expansion
- expatiation
- extension
- fabric
- fabricating
- fabrication
- farming
- figuration
- figure
- fleshing out
- form
- format
- formation
- fosterage
- fostering
- foundation
- gardening
- gentility
- grace
- heightening
- hold-up
- improvisation
- intensification
- invention
- jump
- jump-up
- leg
- leg-up
- lengthening
- lineage
- magnification
- makeup
- making
- manners
- mold
- move-up
- naturalizing
- nurture
- origination
- outline
- padding
- polish
- prefab
- prefabrication
- promotion
- putting up
- raising
- refinement
- rise
- roadwork
- schooling
- shape
- step-up
- strengthening
- stretching
- structure
- supplementing
- system
- systematization
- taking in
- tending
- training
- turn
- type
- upbringing
- upping
- urbanity
- widening
Définition of raisings
Origin :- mid-14c., "an act of elevating," verbal noun from raise (v.). Specifically in American English, "the erecting of a building," by 1650s.
- RAISING. In New England and the Northern States, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building. [Webster, 1830]
- As in raise : noun increase in salary or position
- As in breeding : noun cultivation of person
- As in construction : noun creation, building
- As in adoption : noun legal taking of another's child
- As in culture : noun development of land
- As in amplification : noun increase in size or effect
- After five raisings the revolver was mine and the cartridges too.
- Extract from : « The Duel » by A. I. Kuprin
- No more huskings or quiltings, or apple cuts, or raisings or "bees" of any sort.
- Extract from : « My Boyhood » by John Burroughs
- We had "raisings" in those days, when a new building was put up.
- Extract from : « My Boyhood » by John Burroughs
- With her raisings, what does she probably like the best in the world?
- Extract from : « J. Poindexter, Colored » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
- These are the operations gone through for the two raisings of worms on the second and third day of the hatching.
- Extract from : « The Insect World » by Louis Figuier
- Both were framers, both famous captains, and more than once had they led the opposing forces at raisings.
- Extract from : « The Doctor » by Ralph Connor
- We here consider only the raisings which restored to the virtually dead their interrupted mortal life.
- Extract from : « Miracles and Supernatural Religion » by James Morris Whiton
- In the work of these raisings the highest as well as the humblest citizens took part.
- Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
- But then, of course, that's due to the ignorance of their raisings and probably they is not to blame so much after all.
- Extract from : « J. Poindexter, Colored » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Antonyms for raisings
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