Raise the temperature

Definition

raise /rez/ v ၁။ (က) ေထာင္သည္။ ေမာ့သည္။ မသည္။ ေဖာ္သည္။ raise one's hand ❍ She raised the gun and fired. ❍ He raised his eyes from his work. ❍ raise a sunken ship (up) to the surface. (ခ) စိုက္သည္။ ထူသည္။ We raised the fence and fixed it in position. ❍ He raised himself (up) on one elbow. Compare LOWER 2 ၁ ၂။ ~ sth ( to sth) ျမႇင့္သည္။ ပင့္သည္။ တိုးသည္။ raise salaries/ prices/ taxes. ❍ raise standards of service ❍ Don't tell her about the job until you know for sure– we don't want to raise her hopes (ie give her too much hope). ❍ raise public awareness of an issue ❍ He raised his offer to £500. ❍ raise the temperature to 80¹. Compare LOWER 2 ၂ ၃။ မတည္သည္။ ေကာက္ခံသည္။ raise money/ a loan ❍ raise funds for charity. See also FUND-RAISING ၄။ (က) (အသံ) ေပးသည္၊ ထြက္သည္။ A passer-by raised the alarm when he saw smoke pouring from the building. (ခ) ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ တင္ျပသည္။ ေျပာသည္။ The book raises many important issues/ questions. ❍ I'm glad you raised the subject of money. ၅။ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။ ေပၚေပါက္ေစသည္။ raise doubts/ fears/ suspicions in people's minds ❍ The plans for a new motorway have raised angry protests from local residents. ❍ He told them all his best jokes, but he couldn't even raise a smile. ❍ The horses' hooves raised a cloud of dust. ၆။ (က) ( esp US ) ေကြၽးေမြးျပဳစုသည္။ ၾကည့္႐ႈေစာင့္ေရွာက္သည္။ My parents died when I was very young, so I was raised by my aunt. (ခ) (တိရစၧာန္) ေမြးသည္ (သို႔) (ေကာက္ပဲသီးႏွံ) စိုက္သည္။ ၇။ (ပိတ္ပင္မႈ၊ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ) ႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္။ raise a blockade/ a ban/ an embargo. ၈။ ( Brit infml ) (ေရဒီယို၊ တယ္လီဖုန္း စသည္ျဖင့္) ဆက္သြယ္ သည္။ I can't raise her on the phone. n ( US ) = RISE n ၂: get a raise of $200. ❏ raised /rezd/ adj ျမႇင့္ထားေသာ။ a raised platform. ❏ raise one's eyebrows (at sth) [ IDM ] (esp passive) ေမးေငါ့သည္။ Eyebrows were raised/ There were a lot of raised eyebrows when he arrived at the party without his wife. ❏ raise one's glass ( to sb) [ IDM ] အရက္ခြက္ ေျမႇာက္၍ ဆုမြန္ေတာင္းသည္။ ❏ raise hell ( infml ) [ IDM ] ဆူပူေသာင္းက်န္းသည္။ ❏ -raiser (forming compound ns) (ရန္ပံုေငြ) ေကာက္ခံသူ။ a fund-raiser. See also CURTAIN RAISER ❏ raise the roof [ IDM ] လက္ခုပ္ဩဘာသံ ဘဝဂ္ညံေစသည္။ a singer capable of raising the roof every time he performs. ❏ raise sb's spirits [ IDM ] စိတ္ဓာတ္ တက္ႂကြေစသည္။ The sunny weather raised my spirits a little. ❏ raise the temperature [ IDM ] အေျခအေန တင္းမာေစ သည္။ Her sudden outburst raised the temperature of the discussion. ❏ raise sth to sb/ sth[ PHRV ] …. အတြက္ရည္စူး စိုက္ထူသည္။ raise a memorial to those killed in the war. ❏ raise one's voice [ IDM ] က်ယ္က်ယ္ေျပာသည္။

Examples

1. He could hardly raise the injured arm at all.
2. [raise your hand] : A number of children raised their hands.
3. [raise something to your lips/mouth] : With a shaky hand
4. he slowly raised the cup to his lips.
5. The job of raising the walls should be completed tomorrow.
6. She could barely raise herself out of the chair.
7. Bad weather has so far hampered attempts to raise the vessel.
8. The money could be found by raising income tax by two per cent.
9. They had raised their prices to unreasonable levels.
10. The aim is to modernize production methods and raise safety standards.
11. We managed to raise over £4
12. 000 through sponsored events.
13. We need your help to raise money for urgent medical research.
14. Are there any other questions you would like to raise at the meeting?
15. [raise something with someone] : We will raise the issue of working hours with the manager.
16. The accident raises a number of questions about the safety of the system.
17. [raise doubts/fears] : Doubts have been raised about the company’s right to use this land.
18. [raise a family] : For most parents
19. raising a family is a positive challenge.
20. [raise someone as something] : The children were raised as vegetarians.
21. [born and raised] : This seems strange to someone born and raised in the city.
22. She’s been raising sheep for over 40 years.
23. Monuments were raised in honour of the dead.
24. 3 raised to the third power is 27.