Uprise

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uprise \Up*rise"\ ([u^]p*r[imac]z"), v. i.
     1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
        "Uprose the sun." --Cowley.
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              Uprose the virgin with the morning light. --Pope.


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     2. To have an upward direction or inclination.
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              Uprose the mystic mountain range.     --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uprise \Up*rise"\, n.
     The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.]
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           Did ever raven sing so like a lark,
           That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uprise
       v 1: come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious
            movement originated in that country"; "a love that
            sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew
            out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon
            uprose" [syn: {originate}, {arise}, {rise}, {develop}, {spring
            up}, {grow}]
       2: ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the
          church"
       3: rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a
          sight to make one's hair uprise!" [syn: {bristle}, {stand
          up}]
       4: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
          [syn: {arise}, {rise}, {get up}, {stand up}] [ant: {sit
          down}, {lie down}]
       5: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun
          uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
          [syn: {rise}, {come up}, {ascend}] [ant: {set}]
       6: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
          forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: {rise},
           {lift}, {arise}, {move up}, {go up}, {come up}] [ant: {descend}]
       7: return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to
          uprise" [syn: {resurrect}, {rise}]
       8: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They
          rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: {get up}, {turn
          out}, {arise}, {rise}] [ant: {go to bed}, {go to bed}]
       [also: {uprose}, {uprisen}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  150 Moby Thesaurus words for "uprise":
     Olympian heights, abruptness, acclivity, acme, aerial heights,
     anabasis, apex, arise, ascend, ascension, ascent, bank, bristle,
     buss the clouds, cant, careen, clamber, climb, climbing, cock up,
     come up, curl upwards, decline, descend, dip, dizzy heights, drop,
     elevation, eminence, escalade, ether, fall, fall away, fall off,
     fountain, get up, go downhill, go up, go uphill, grade, gradient,
     grow, grow up, gush, gyring up, heaven, heavens, height, heights,
     incline, increase, jet, jump, jump up, keel, lean, leap, levitate,
     levitation, lift, list, loom, mount, mounting, pile out, pitch,
     precipitousness, raise, rake, ramp, rear, rear up, retreat, rise,
     rise up, rising, rising ground, rocketing up, roll out, saltation,
     shelve, shoot up, shooting up, sidle, sit bolt upright, sit up,
     sky, slant, slope, soar, soaring, spiral, spire, spout, spring,
     spurt, stand on tiptoe, stand up, steep, steepness, stick up,
     stratosphere, surge, swag, swarm up, sway, sweep up, takeoff,
     taking off, tilt, tip, tower, turn out, up, upclimb, upcoming,
     updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrow, upgrowth, upheave,
     uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprear, uprisal, uprising, uprush,
     upshoot, upslope, upspin, upspring, upstream, upsurge, upsurgence,
     upswarm, upsweep, upswing, upwind, vantage ground, vantage point,
     vault, vertical height, verticalness, zenith, zooming