Meaning

11 senses
  1. Someone or something which rises.

    a person who rises (especially from bed)

  2. A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.

    The choir stood on risers for the performance.

  3. A vertical part of a step on a staircase.

    Setzstufe

    подступёнокpodstupjónok

    structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step

  4. The main body of a bow.

  5. A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).

    a vertical pipe in a building

  6. A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.

  7. A Manx cat with a showable short tail.

  8. A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.

  9. A reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.

  10. (colloquial, countable)An erection of the penis.

  11. An audio effect that gradually increases in frequency, pitch, or volume.

Examples

40 sentences
  1. You're an early riser, aren't you?

    Ти рано встаєш, так? — aandrusiak

  2. She's an early riser.

    Вона жайворонок. — deniko

    ruОна жаворонок. — marafon

    deSie ist eine Frühaufsteherin. — Adelpa

  3. My family are all early risers.

    ruУ меня в семье все жаворонки. — marafon

  4. My mother is an early riser.

    ruМоя мама - жаворонок. — marafon

    deMeine Mutter ist eine Frühaufsteherin. — al_ex_an_der

  5. Tom is a late riser, isn't he?

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
part of a step:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
part of a step:

Origin

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.

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Forms

plural: risers
Singularriser
Pluralrisers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a vertical pipe in a building:riser piperiser pipelineriser main

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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