The difference between Rise and Tread
When used as nouns, rise means the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater, whereas tread means a step.
When used as verbs, rise means to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. to move upwards. to grow upward, whereas tread means to step or walk (on or over something).
check bellow for the other definitions of Rise and Tread
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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."
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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"
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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"
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Rise as a verb (transitive):
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
Examples:
"to rise a hill"
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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"
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Rise as a verb (obsolete):
To retire; to give up a siege.
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Rise as a verb:
To come; to offer itself.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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Rise as a noun (chiefly, UK):
An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
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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."
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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."
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Rise as a noun (Sussex):
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
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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.
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Rise as a noun (informal):
An angry reaction.
Examples:
"I knew that would get a rise out of him."
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Rise as a noun:
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Tread as a verb (intransitive):
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
Examples:
"He trod back and forth wearily."
"Don't tread on the lawn."
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Tread as a verb (transitive):
To step or walk upon.
Examples:
"Actors tread the boards."
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Tread as a verb:
To beat or press with the feet.
Examples:
"to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path"
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Tread as a verb:
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
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Tread as a verb:
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
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Tread as a verb (intransitive):
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Tread as a verb (transitive, of a male bird):
To copulate with.
Examples:
"rfquotek Chaucer"
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Tread as a noun:
A step.
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Tread as a noun:
A manner of stepping.
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Tread as a noun (obsolete):
A way; a track or path.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Tread as a noun:
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
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Tread as a noun:
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
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Tread as a noun:
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
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Tread as a noun:
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
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Tread as a noun (biology):
The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
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Tread as a noun:
The act of copulation in birds.
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Tread as a noun (fortification):
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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Tread as a noun:
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.