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on the rise
d. Sport. The upward movement of a ball after being thrown or struck by a bat or racket. Chiefly in on the rise: (of a ball) whilst on an upward trajectory.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > motion of ball > specific
curl1833
screw1840
devil1845
rise1845
work1846
break1851
spin1851
hang1866
bump1867
fire1888
leg-spin1888
air break1900
turn1900
underspin1901
off-spin1904
finger spin1905
swing1906
back-spin1916
outswing1921
inswing1927
away swing1936
wrist-spin1960
1845 N. Wanostrocht Felix on Bat ii. ii. 29 Judge the timing of the hit that, bringing the bat down from the shoulders with all your force, you catch the ball about half a foot on the rise.
1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field viii. 165 Slow balls can be pitched nearer to the bat, affording a shorter sight of the rise.
1888 R. H. Lyttelton in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 48 Any break, hang, or rise that the bowler or the ground may impart to the ball must almost inevitably produce a bad stroke.
1900 G. Patten Rockspur Nine v. 50 Man after man came up to bat against him, but he sent in all kinds of curves, shoots, drops, and rises.
1965 Times 30 June 3/1 He hit a half volley on the rise, with more power than thought.
1990 Tennis May 33/1 They both get extra power and put pressure on their opponents by hitting the ball on the rise.
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Phrases

P1. to take one's rise (from): to start or begin with (a particular point or aspect) in a discourse or narration. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)] > start or begin with
to take one's rise (from)1599
1599 R. Fenton Answere W. Alablaster i. 2 Besides those premised groundes from which we take our rise, we must be confirmed by such meanes as Christ hath besides prouided for the members of his Church militant here vpon earth.
1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 28 Taking his rise from the fortune of the house of Lorain.
1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 63 I take my Rise from the remotest Principles that can concern that Point, and these are my Thoughts.
1716 J. Collier tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Panegyrick upon Maccabees 60 Let us take our rise a little from the Original of things.
P2. to give rise to: to be the origin of; to cause, bring about, result in.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > give rise to
makeOE
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wakea1325
wakenc1330
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gendera1398
raisea1400
begetc1443
reara1513
ingener1513
ingenerate1528
to stir upc1530
yield1576
to pull ona1586
to brood up1586
to set afloat (on float)1586
spawn1594
innate1602
initiate1604
inbreed1605
irritate1612
to give rise to1630
to let in1655
to gig (out)1659
to set up1851
gin1887
1630 T. Taylor Progresse of Saints sig. A5 It is not want of time, but want of well husbanding the time, that gives rise to this objection.
1691 T. Heyrick Misc. Poems 18 Fear gave rise to Divinity; And Gods haue rose from Cruelty.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 132 His Reputation..gave Rise to the Republick that calls it self after his Name.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 256 This shallowness and narrowness in many parts of the sea, give also rise to a peculiarity in the tides.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 9 Very trifling circumstances have often given rise to the most ingenious tales.
1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 304 When this action has been very long and violent, it gives rise to a painful sensibility.
1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 93 The answer to these questions gave rise to the systems of Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xlviii. 480 His whole previous career had given rise to the gravest distrust.
1912 Times 10 Sept. 34/2 The longitudinal and transverse wires gave rise to the so-called ‘wire marks’ in the paper, and the special device produced the well-known ‘watermark’ generally found in the centre of the sheet.
1951 J. Crosland Old French Epic xii. 276 This hatred, caused by jealousy or the rankling of wounded pride, gave rise to a class of traitors who carried on a sort of personal vendetta against those they wished to ruin.
2004 B. Greene Fabric of Cosmos x. 272 In the 1980s, an old observation of Einstein's was resurrected in a sparkling new form, giving rise to what has become known as inflationary cosmology.
P3. on the rise.
a. Becoming more valuable or more expensive. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [adverb] > increasing or increased in price
up1546
on the rise1805
upward1874
upwards1874
1805 J. J. Oddy European Commerce vii. vii. 555 The export is rapidly on the rise, which will be demonstrated by the following official value.
1884 Illustr. London News 13 Dec. 570/3 ‘Sheep,’ for five years, have been steadily ‘on the rise’.
1904 G. P. Williams New Chum's Let. Home 81 You feel a little better, When the mail bag brings a letter With the news that frozen lamb is on the rise.
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree viii. 113 He will take them to market next Tuesday; but if he thinks eggs are on the rise and he might get a better price, he will buy them in again, and try them in another market on Thursday, and again maybe on Saturday.
b. Increasing in status, power, or importance; becoming more successful; improving.
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1822 Methodist Mag. May 188 Religion is on the rise; we have congregations, and great attention.
1908 Polit. Sci. Q. 23 171 He insists that owing to over-production, industry is on the decline, while agriculture is on the rise.
1971 French Rev. 44 227 His reputation is on the rise again.
1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant (1983) i. 2 Always fuming over business: who was on the rise and who was on the skids.
2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 178/1 Everton look to be on the rise but this should be an easy match.
c. See sense 6.
d. See sense 7d.
e. Increasing in quantity or frequency; becoming more widespread.
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1878 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 648 Trade is good,..demand for English wares is on the rise.
1957 Changing Times May 6/2 Officials can't explain completely why embezzling is on the rise.
1989 Omni Aug. 22/1 In the desert,..cactus rustling is on the rise.
2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 iv. 383 And another phobia, this one on the rise: tropophobia, or the fear of making changes or moving.
P4. U.S. the rise of: more than, above, (a specified amount or period of time) (now rare); †and the rise: and more (obsolete). Cf. rising adj. 6b.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > rather more than
and morec1230
and (also or) upward1555
and upwards1570
upward of1623
upwards of1721
rising1808
the rise of1834
1834 in J. S. Bassett Southern Plantation Overseer (1925) 66 I muste plante the rise of a hundred aceres in coten.
1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 379/1 It is the rise of a week since I last shifted.
1845 Congress. Globe App. 154/1 I do not propose myself to number [the States yet to be admitted]; but I set them down at twenty and the rise.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) The phrase and the rise, is used in some parts of the South to mean ‘and more’;..‘I should think there were a thousand and the rise’, i.e. a thousand and more.
1905 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Dec. 820/1 I've seen the rise of $50,000 at a time in that tin grub box that my adopted father calls his safe.
1914 E. B. Bronson Vanguard xiv. 274 Bill..rose and emptied his safe drawer and proceeded to pass over to the winner the rise of ten thousand dollars.
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