Waking vs Rising - What's the difference?
waking | rising |
Occurring during wakefulness.
* 1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine , Volume 46, Number 3,
* “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well , Oxford University Press (2000), ISBN 978-0-19-514092-7,
* 2003 , Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief , Mesorah Publications, ISBN 978-1-57819-718-7,
The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
* 1995 , Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
rebellion
The act of something that rises.
(US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
going up
(US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.
As adjectives the difference between waking and rising
is that waking is occurring during wakefulness while rising is going up.As verbs the difference between waking and rising
is that waking is present participle of lang=en while rising is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between waking and rising
is that waking is the act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake while rising is rebellion.As a preposition rising is
more than; exceeding; upwards of.waking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 230:
- The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.
page page 263:
- Counting occupied my every waking thought.
page 80:
- It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”
Usage notes
* This adjective most often occurs in phrases such as “every waking moment”, “every waking hour”, “every waking breath”, and so on, the sense being roughly “at all times”. Such phrases are often used together with possessives, such as in “her every waking moment” or “my every waking thought”.Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
rising
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the risings and fallings of a thermometer
- salt rising'''; milk '''rising
Adjective
(-)Preposition
(English prepositions)- a horse rising six years of age