different between raising vs raiding

English

Etymology

From Middle English reisyng; equivalent to raise +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?z??/
• Rhymes: -e?z??
• Homophone: razing
• Hyphenation: rais?ing

Verb

raising

1. present participle of raise

Noun

raising (countable and uncountable, plural raisings)

1. Elevation.
2. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
3. Recruitment.
4. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
5. (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.

   to help at a raising

6. (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
7. (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
8. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
9. The substance used to make bread rise.
10. The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

Translations

Anagrams

• air sign, airings, arising

English

Verb

raiding

1. present participle of raid

Noun

raiding (plural raidings)

1. The act of carrying out a raid.
   • 1995, Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation (page 172)

     These raidings and counter-raidings continued over a brief pre-war season, the wives being paraded and used in the same way as captured 'outsider' women.

Anagrams

• gradini