verb

• (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  "to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself"
• (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  "to raise a wall, or a heap of stones"
• (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  "The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk."
• (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  "to raise Sandy Hook light"

noun

• (US) Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
  "The boss gave me a raise."
• (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• (poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.
• (mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
  "1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books It was necessary to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug for ventilation, and it was completed just as the demand for optical calcite ceased. The underground drifts were left well timbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work."