The difference between Increase and Rise

When used as nouns, increase means an amount by which a quantity is increased, whereas rise means the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

When used as verbs, increase means (of a quantity, etc.) to become larger or greater, whereas rise means to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. to move upwards. to grow upward.

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  1. Increase as a verb (intransitive):

    (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

    Examples:

    "His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money."

  2. Increase as a verb (transitive):

    To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.

  3. Increase as a verb:

    To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

  4. Increase as a verb (astronomy, intransitive):

    To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

    Examples:

    "The Moon increases."

  1. Increase as a noun:

    An amount by which a quantity is increased.

  2. Increase as a noun:

    For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

  3. Increase as a noun (knitting):

    The creation of one or more new stitches; see .

  1. Rise as a verb (intransitive):

    To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. To move upwards. To grow upward; to attain a certain height. To slope upward. To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. To become erect; to assume an upright position. To leave one's bed; to get up. To be resurrected. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.

    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."

  2. Rise as a verb (intransitive):

    To increase in value or standing. To attain a higher status. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.

    Examples:

    "to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest."

    "to rise a tone or semitone"

  3. Rise as a verb (of a river):

    To begin; to develop. To develop. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light. To have its source (in a particular place). To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

    Examples:

    "Has that dough risen yet?"

    "a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower"

  4. Rise as a verb (transitive):

    To go up; to ascend; to climb.

    Examples:

    "to rise a hill"

  5. Rise as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to go up or ascend.

    Examples:

    "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"

  6. Rise as a verb (obsolete):

    To retire; to give up a siege.

  7. Rise as a verb:

    To come; to offer itself.

  8. Rise as a verb (printing, dated):

    To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

  1. Rise as a noun:

    The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

    Examples:

    "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."

  2. Rise as a noun:

    The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

    Examples:

    "The rise of the working class."

    "The rise of the printing press."

    "The rise of the feminists."

  3. Rise as a noun (chiefly, UK):

    An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).

  4. Rise as a noun:

    The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

    Examples:

    "The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed."

  5. Rise as a noun (UK, Ireland, Australia):

    An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).

    Examples:

    "The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six."

  6. Rise as a noun (Sussex):

    A small hill; used chiefly in place names.

  7. Rise as a noun:

    An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

  8. Rise as a noun (informal):

    An angry reaction.

    Examples:

    "I knew that would get a rise out of him."

  1. Rise as a noun:

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