📖 R — The English dictionary · page 45

risest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «risest» means «you rise», a form of «rise»: To rise is to go up, move upward: «Smoke rises».↗ Example: And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.↗ (Torah DEU.11.19, JPS 1917) · and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.↗ (Torah DEU.6.7, JPS 1917)

riseth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «riseth» means «rises», a form of «rise»: To rise is to go up, move upward: «Smoke rises».↗ Example: But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.↗ (Torah DEU.22.26, JPS 1917) · Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.↗ (Torah NUM.23.24, JPS 1917)

rising — Everyday, meaning 1: Rising means going up, or getting higher.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rising means getting bigger in number, amount or strength, like rising prices.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The rising sun is the sun coming up in the morning.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Rising as an adjective describes something becoming more important or successful, like a rising star.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A rising (noun) is a rebellion against rulers, such as the Easter Rising in Ireland.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Rising can also mean getting up out of bed in the morning.↗ Example: The sun is rising over the hills.↗ · Hot air is rising from the fire.↗ · Sea levels are rising around the world.↗ · The river is rising after the storm, so keep away.↗ · The bread is rising in a warm place.↗ · The numbers are rising by three each time: 3, 6, 9, 12.↗ · Prices keep rising at the shop.↗ · She's a rising star in tennis.↗ · A Cock, rising early, discovered what had happened.↗ · and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; (Torah LEV.14.56, JPS 1917)↗ · the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.'↗ (Torah NUM.34.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is in front of Moab, toward the sun-rising.↗ (Torah NUM.21.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.↗ (Writings LAM.3.63, JPS 1917)↗ · The greyhound; the he-goat also; and the king, against whom there is no rising up.↗ (Writings PRO.30.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And nations shall walk at thy light, and kings at the brightness of thy rising.↗ (Prophets ISA.60.3, JPS 1917)↗

risk — Everyday, meaning 1: A risk is the chance that something bad, like getting hurt or losing something, may happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A risk is a thing or situation that could cause harm.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To risk something is to do something that could lead to losing or harming it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To take a risk is to do something even though it may go wrong.↗ Example: Wearing a helmet lowers the risk of head injury.↗ · Swim at your own risk.↗ · Don't take risks near cliffs.↗ · He risked his life to save the dog.↗ · Children near busy roads are at risk.↗ · Is this a high risk or a low risk?↗ · It's worth the risk to try out for the team.↗ · She didn't want to risk getting wet, so she took an umbrella.↗ · It is a great risk, and to go is not wise.↗

risky — Everyday, meaning 1: Risky means possibly dangerous; something that could make you get hurt, lose something or go wrong.↗ Example: It's risky to swim in the sea when there are big waves.↗ · Crossing the road between parked cars is risky.↗ · Sharing your password is risky.↗ · The climbers knew the trip was risky.↗ · Hiding in the old fridge is very risky.↗ · Their plan was too risky, so they chose a safer one.↗ · Riding without a helmet is riskier than riding with one.↗ · Jumping off the high wall is the riskiest thing you could do.↗

rite — Everyday, meaning 1: A rite is a religious or serious ceremony that is done in a fixed way, like baptism or a funeral.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rite of passage is a ceremony or event that marks a big change in someone's life, like becoming an adult, or a first experience that everyone goes through.↗ Example: Baptism is a Christian rite of welcome into the church.↗ · (church) The priest gave Grandad the last rites.↗ · Starting secondary school is a rite of passage.↗ · Every culture has its own funeral rites.↗ · The bar mitzvah is a Jewish rite for a boy becoming an adult.↗ · Learning to ride a bike is a childhood rite of passage.↗ · Achilles now solemnized the funereal rites in honour of his friend Patroclus.↗

ritual — Everyday, meaning 1: A set of actions always done in the same way and order, especially as part of a religious ceremony.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something a person or family always does in the same way, like a habit.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Done as part of a ceremony or out of habit.↗ Example: Lighting candles is part of the ritual in many churches.↗ · Our bedtime ritual is a bath, a story and a cuddle.↗ · The ancient Egyptians had rituals for burying their kings.↗ · Every Saturday, Dad's ritual is pancakes and the football.↗ · The team does a ritual handshake before each game.↗ · Baptism is an important Christian ritual.↗ · To her was intrusted the office of convoking the assembly of the gods, and she was also mistress of ritual and ceremony.↗ · Hermetic rituals explain this Yetziratic attri- bution.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

rival — Everyday, meaning 1: A person, team or business that competes with another for the same thing.↗ e.g. The two schools are old rivals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To be as good as someone or something.↗ e.g. Her cake rivals any shop's cake.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Competing: rival gangs, rival shops.↗ Example: The two football teams are fierce rivals.↗ · Our rival shop sells apples 5p cheaper.↗ · Nothing can rival Grandma's apple pie.↗ · The rival team scored 3 goals; we scored 4.↗ · She beat her rival in the final race.↗ · Batman's arch-rival is the Joker.↗ · Male deer fight their rivals in autumn.↗ · All the King’s unsuccessful rivals had gone home in despair.↗ · And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.↗ (Torah LEV.18.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And her rival vexed her sore, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.↗ (Prophets 1SA.1.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt behold a rival in My habitation, in all the good which shall be done to Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.↗ (Prophets 1SA.2.32, JPS 1917)↗

rivalry — Everyday, meaning 1: A situation in which people, teams or groups compete with each other for the same thing, often for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Feelings of competition or jealousy between people, for example between brothers and sisters.↗ Example: There's a friendly rivalry between the two classes on sports day.↗ · The rivalry between the two football clubs is very old.↗ · Sibling rivalry means Sam and his sister argue about everything.↗ · The rivalry between the two kings led to war.↗ · Their rivalry made both runners faster.↗ · The cricket rivalry between England and Australia is famous.↗ · The twins' rivalry turned into friendship.↗ · Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man's rivalry with his neighbour.↗ (Writings ECC.4.4, JPS 1917)↗

river — Everyday, meaning 1: A river is a large stream of fresh water that flows across land to a lake, another river or the sea.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A river of something is a large flowing amount: a river of lava, rivers of tears.↗ Example: The river is 120 km long.↗ · A boat travels 20 miles up the river.↗ · The bridge over the river is 300 meters.↗ · How long does it take to cross the river?↗ · The river flows into the sea.↗ · The Shannon is the longest river in Ireland.↗ · The river carries sand and mud downstream.↗ · Never swim in a river without an adult.↗ · We floated on a raft down the river.↗ · It will become a wide, wide river.↗ · And the fourth river is the Euphrates.↗ (Torah GEN.2.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.↗ (Torah EXO.7.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.↗ (Torah GEN.36.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.↗ (Writings PSA.74.15, JPS 1917)↗ · He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and watersprings into a thirsty ground; (Writings PSA.107.33, JPS 1917)↗

riverbank — Everyday, meaning 1: A riverbank is the land along the side of a river.↗ Example: We had a picnic on the riverbank.↗ · An otter slid down the muddy riverbank.↗ · Stay away from the edge of the riverbank.↗ · Ducks waddled along the riverbank.↗ · The riverbank was covered in flowers.↗ · Flood water burst over the riverbank.↗ · “The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again,” remarked the Lion.↗

riverbed — Everyday, meaning 1: A riverbed is the bottom of a river, the ground the river water flows over.↗ Example: The riverbed was covered with smooth stones.↗ · In summer the riverbed dried up.↗ · Fish lay their eggs on the gravel of the riverbed.↗ · We could see the riverbed through the clear water.↗ · A dry riverbed can flood very fast after a storm.↗ · They found an old coin in the riverbed.↗

riverside — Everyday, meaning 1: The riverside is the land along or near a river.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Riverside (before a noun) describes something next to a river: a riverside walk, a riverside café.↗ Example: We walked along the riverside path.↗ · They live in a riverside cottage.↗ · The town fair was held by the riverside.↗ · Many old cities were built on the riverside.↗ · A heron stood by the riverside.↗ · We ate lunch at a riverside café.↗ · “Now,” said the Scarecrow to the Tin Woodman, “you must go to those trees by the riverside and make a truck that will carry the Lion.”↗

rivet — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A short metal pin used to join pieces of metal or leather; its end is hammered flat to hold it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To fasten something with rivets.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To hold someone's attention completely.↗ e.g. "The film riveted us."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "Riveted to the spot" means unable to move, from fear or surprise.↗ Example: The old ship was held together by thousands of rivets.↗ · Look at the little metal rivets on your jeans.↗ · The workers riveted the steel beams together.↗ · The whole class was riveted by the story.↗ · She stood riveted to the spot when she saw the bear.↗ · It was a riveting match right to the last second.↗ · "I haven't half enough rivets in the shop.↗

rivulet — Everyday, meaning 1: A rivulet is a small stream of water, smaller than a river or brook.↗ Example: A rivulet ran past the old mill.↗ · We paddled our feet in the rivulet.↗ · Clear water trickled down the rivulet over the stones.↗

rn — Everyday, meaning 1: (slang, texting) rn means "right now".↗ e.g. "I'm busy rn".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: RN means Registered Nurse, a fully trained nurse (USA, Canada, Australia).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: RN means the Royal Navy, the navy of the United Kingdom.↗ Example: Can't talk rn, eating dinner.↗ · I'm so bored rn.↗ · "Where are you rn?" "↗ At the park."↗ · My aunt is an RN at the children's hospital.↗ · Grandpa served in the RN for twenty years.↗ · The RN came to check my temperature.↗ · It therefore follows that, according to the author of the Sefer Yetzirali II, the twenty-two letters are divided into ten double rns: -:c ,rox and twelve simple letters psy cjr "un Ti.-i. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

ro — Everyday, meaning 1: «RO» is short for «reverse osmosis», a way of cleaning water by pushing it through a very fine filter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «ro» is the internet code and language code for Romania and the Romanian language (as in a web address ending «.ro»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «ro» is often just a piece of a longer word, such as «ro» in «robot» or «row».↗ Example: Our kitchen filter makes RO water.↗ · The RO system takes salt out of sea water.↗ · A website ending in .ro is usually from Romania.↗ · The language code «ro» stands for Romanian.↗ · Some ships use RO machines to make drinking water.↗ · «Ro» here is only the start of the word «robot».↗

roach — Everyday, meaning 1: (USA, Canada, informal) A cockroach: a flat brown insect that runs fast and lives in dirty kitchens and warm places.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small silver freshwater fish with reddish eyes and fins, common in rivers, lakes and canals in Britain and Europe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (slang) The end of a cannabis cigarette; drug slang, not a word for school.↗ Example: (USA) We saw a roach run under the fridge.↗ · Keep food in boxes so roaches don't get in.↗ · Grandad caught a roach in the canal.↗ · The roach has a silver body and red eyes.↗ · Roach and perch swam in the clear river.↗ · Cockroaches, or roaches, have six legs like all insects.↗ · The exterminator came to get rid of the roaches.↗ · Well, one Sunday morning he was fishing as usual, and not a salmon had risen to him, his basket was bare of roach or dace.↗