riser

Meaning

1. Someone or something which rises.
2. A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
3. A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
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).
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.

Synonyms

riser pipe

riser main

riser pipeline

standpipe

rising main

lift-web

raiser

leg

🦵

lifter

lifting

mutiny

raising

rebellion

rebellions

revolt

riot

rise

rising

spiracle

stack

take-up

upraising

uprising

waker

air valve

overbreak

stegma

tedge

breather hole

female sterility

air gate

stair riser

lift device

lifting equipment

lifting piece

gas lock

lift line

shrink head

casting head

feeder head

flash groove

sink-head

riser head

gate riser

sullage pipe

lifting appliance

door of vital energy

metrorrhagia and metrostaxis

vertical pipe

upflow tube

raking riser

uprest

rising heading

dysuria

rise drift

feeder

footboard

hot top

insurgence

insurgency

insurrection

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹaɪ.zə(ɹ)/

Etymology

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