English-Portuguese translations for rise

• levantar
  A maioria dos deputados prefere não ter de se levantar todas as vezes. Most of the Members prefer not to have to rise each time.
  Se for necessário levantarmo-nos os doze, levantar-nos-emos. If it is necessary for twelve of us to rise, moreover, twelve of us will rise.
  Minhas senhoras e meus senhores, queiram fazer o favor de se levantar, para guardar um minuto de silêncio pelas vítimas do terrorismo. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise to observe a minute's silence for the victims of terrorism.
• subir
  Trata-se de uma estimativa susceptível de subir. This is an estimate that may rise.
  Os especialistas dizem que o nível das águas pode chegar a subir um metro. We hear from the experts that water levels could rise by up to a metre.
  Há que aceitar que, por vezes, os preços também possam subir num mercado livre. It has to be accepted that prices can sometimes also rise in a free market.
• ascender
  O crescimento deveria ascender a 2, 4 % em 1997.Growth should rise to 2.4 % in 1997.
  O seu número ascenderá a 300 000 por ano em 2001 e 2002 e a 400 000 por ano em 2003 e 2004. This number will rise to 300 000 per year in 2001 and 2002 and to 400 000 per year in 2003 and 2004.
  Se não se verificarem melhorias significativas no país, este número pode ascender a 3,5 milhões no final de 2008. If there is no significant improvement in this country, this figure could rise to 3.5 million by the end of 2008.
• assunção
  Que o reconhecimento do excelente trabalho que aqui fez contribua para a assunção de mais altas responsabilidade na nossa Europa comunitária são os votos que aqui expresso. It is my wish that the excellent work that he has done here helps him to rise to even higher responsibilities in our Community of Europe.
• aumentar
  Aumentará apenas em cerca de 10%.It will only rise by about 10%.
  Também as despesas com os cuidados de saúde aumentarão. Expenditure on health care will also rise.
  Os investimentos teriam de aumentar de 21% para 25%. Investment would need to rise from 21% to 25%.
• aumento
  O aumento dos preços dos alimentos é inaceitável. The rise in food prices is unacceptable.
  Gostaríamos de assistir a um aumento do desemprego?Do we want unemployment to rise?
  Houve um aumento da instabilidade. There has been a rise in instability.
• erguer-se
  O Solidariedade inspirou nações a renascer e povos a erguer-se pela liberdade. Solidarity inspired nations to be reborn and peoples to rise up for freedom.
  Digamos ao sector bancário o seguinte: este é o vosso momento de BSE, erguer-se-ão das próprias cinzas, mas terão de ter melhor regulamentação. Let us say to the banking sector, this is their BSE moment, and they will rise from the ashes, but they will have to be better regulated.
• ressurgir
• subida
  As subidas mais acentuadas verificaram-se nos produtos lácteos, 80% a 200%, e nos cereais, 50% a 80%. We saw the sharpest rise with milk products, at 80-200%, and cereals, at 50-80%.

Definition of rise

• To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground
• To increase in value or standing
• To begin; to develop
• To go up; to ascend; to climb
• To cause to go up or ascend
• To retire; to give up a siege
• To come; to offer itself
• To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form
• The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater
• The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence
• An increase (in a quantity, price, etc
• An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (''US''
• A small hill; ''used chiefly in place names''
• An angry reaction

Examples

• We watched the balloon rise
• This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet
• The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill
• The sun was rising in the East
• to rise from a chair or from a fall
• he rose from the grave;   he is risen!
• The committee rose after agreeing to the report
• to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence;   a story rises in interest
• to rise a tone or semitone
• Has that dough risen yet?
• a noise rose on the air;   odour rises from the flower
• to rise a hill
• to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water
• to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it
• The rise of the tide.
• There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
• Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
• The rise of the working class.
• The rise of the printing press.
• The rise of the feminists.
• The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
• The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.
• I knew that would get a rise out of him.

Related words

• sunrise
• comprise
• surprise
• accessorise
• arise
• high-rise
• authorise
• enterprise
• reprise