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Uprise

Definition: Uprise

Uprise

Verb

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".

2. Ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church".

3. Rise up; of animals fur or hair; as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!".

4. Rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded".

5. Come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises": "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends".

6. Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows".

7. Return from the dead; "Christ is risen!" "The dead are to uprise".

8. Get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "uprise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Synonyms: Uprise

Synonyms: arise (v), ascend (v), bristle (v), come up (v), develop (v), get up (v), go up (v), grow (v), lift (v), move up (v), originate (v), rise (v), spring up (v), stand up (v), turn out (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: descend (v), go to bed (v), lie down (v), set (v), sit down (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Uprise

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ascent

Verb: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Uprise

English words defined with "uprise": bristleUprist. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Uprise

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

uprise

12

cincinnati uprise

3

skateshop uprise

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Uprise

Language Translations for "uprise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ngritje (advance, ascension, boosting, building, cultivation, elevation, erection, flow, hoist, increase, jump, lifting up, progress, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, setting up, take off, upswing, uptake), i ngritur (airborne, astir, elevated, erect, established, high), e përpjetë (upgrade), e ngritur (lift, offset, protuberance, rib, swelling). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

въставам (rebel, revolt, rise, rise in revolt), надигам се (arise, blow up, boil up, get up, pull up, rear, rise, simmer, surge, swell, well up), появяване (advent, apparition, appearance, emergence, emersion, entry), повишение (advance, advancement, preferment, rise, rising), излитане (blastoff, lift off, start), издигам се (advance, arise, arose, ascend, aspire, flow, go up, jump, loft, move up, peak, push up, rise, rise in the world, shoot up, tower). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vstát (get out of bed, get up, stand up). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

طلوع کردن (Arise, Peep, Rise), طغیان کردن (Arise, Flood, Muitiny, Overflow, Rise), ازخواب برخاستن (Rise), بالاامدن (Rise, Upheaval), برخاستن (Arise, Rise, Up), ببالارفتن . (various references)

   

French

  

débout (get up). (various references)

   

German

  

aufstehen (arise, be open, get down, get off, get up, rise, stand, stand on, stand up, to arise, to arise (arose, to get up, to rise, to stand up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felemelkedik (ascend, lift off, rise, to ascend, to emerge, to lift, to lift off, to mount, to rear oneself up, to up), felemelkedés (ascension, ascent, elevation, heaving, levitation, lift, lift-off, raise, recovery, rise, upheaval). (various references)

   

Italian

  

levarsi (arise, get up, rise, stand up, take off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iseupray

   

Portuguese

  

subir (accrue, advance, ascend, aspire, climb, come up, go up, heighten, improve, increase, mount, puff, rise, scale, scramble, steepen, up), subida (advance, ascension, ascent, climb, climbing, heatspot, raise, rise, rising, scramble, soaring, upswing), rampa (acclivity, agger, ascent, bank, gradient, hillside, incline, rise, runway, slope, talus), nascimento (birth, heatspot, nativity, rising), elevação (ascension, elevation, eminence, exaltation, ledge, lifting, loftiness, raise, rise, rising, sublimation, up, uplift), ascensão (accession, ascension, ascent, climb, rise, rising, upswing), ascender (ascend, rise). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

urcuş (ascent, slope, up, up grade, uphill), se ridica (amount, arise, come up, crest, flush, get up, heave, lift, Mount, rise, shoot up, stand), se rãzvrãti (mutiny), revoltã (disorder, indignation, insurgence, insurgency, rebellion, revolt, upheaval), rãsãrit (beautiful, clever, East, Orient, risen, rising, sunrise, uprisen, valuable), drum în pantã, avansare (accession, advancement, forwardness, preferment, promotion, rise, rising), înãlţare a unui balon. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

восстание (insurgency, insurrection, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, uprising), восходящий (ascendant, ascensional, bottom-up, rising, upcast, upward), восход (rise, sunrise, sunup), подъем (acclivity, ascent, climb, elevation, heave, heaving, hoist, instep, lift, lifting, raise, reveille, rise, rouse, take off, up, upgrade, uplift, upsurge, upswing, upturn, verve). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ustanak (insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprising), postanak (genesis, origin), izlazak (coming-out, egress). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sublevar, levantarse (arise, break up, get up, getup, lift, pant, pick oneself up, raise, raise oneself, rise, run high, set in, stand, stand up, tip up, tumble out, turn out), insurreccionar. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

схід (dawning, rise, uprising), сходити (alight, arise, ascend, descend, dismount, get off, get up, rise, slough off, swarm up, walk down), вставати (arise, get up, rise, stand up), підняття (elevation, lift), поява (apparition, appearance, emergence, emersion, nascence, nascency), повставати (arise, rebel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Uprise

Derivations

Words beginning with "uprise": uprisen, upriser, uprisers, uprises. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Uprise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: peris, piers, pries, prise, puris, purse, ripes, sieur, sirup, speir, spier, spire, sprue, super.

-2 letters: ires, peri, pier, pies, pure, puri, purs, reis, reps, ripe, rips, rise, rues, ruse, sipe, sire, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user.

-3 letters: ers, ire, per, pes, pie, pis, piu, psi, pur, pus, rei, rep, res, rip, rue.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: euripus, purines, pursier, pushier, pussier, soupier, spumier, suspire, umpires, updries, upraise, uprisen, upriser, uprises.

 

+2 letters: cuprites, disputer, duperies, epicures, groupies, guipures, imputers, junipers, murphies, penuries, perilous, periques, perusing, pervious, pictures, piecrust, pirogues, piroques, pleurisy, plushier, precious, premiums, previous, primuses, pruinose, puggries, pumicers, punisher, purifies, purities, purlieus, purlines, pursiest, purviews, puttiers, quippers, quipster, reequips, resupine, roupiest, spirulae, sprucier, spunkier, spurrier, spurries, stumpier, stupider, superfix, superhit, supering, superior, superlie, supplier, surplice, surprise, surprize, suspired, suspires, unripest, upraised, upraiser, upraises, uprisers, uprivers, viperous, writeups.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Uprise


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 70 72 69 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    .--.    .-.    ..    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 0072 0069 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558284758571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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