Raising

Raising may refer to:

  • Raising (linguistics), a syntactic construction
  • Raising (phonetics), a change in a vowel towards a closer articulation
  • Raising (metalwork), a metalworking technique
  • Barn raising, a community event to erect the wooden framework for a building

Famous quotes containing the word raising:

    the old palaces, the wallets of the tourists,
    the Common Market or the smart cafés,
    the boulevards in the graceful evening,
    the cliff-hangers, the scientists,
    and the little shops raising their prices
    mean nothing to me.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885)

    It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.
    Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)