Overture vs Rise - What's the Difference?

Overture

Rise

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
  • a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
  • something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
Definition as Noun
  • a growth in strength or number or importance
  • increase in price or value
  • the act of changing location in an upward direction
  • an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
  • an increase in cost
  • (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
  • a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
  • the amount a salary is increased
  • a movement upward
  • the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
Definition as Verb
Definition as Verb
  • become heartened or elated
  • exert oneself to meet a challenge
  • rise to one's feet
  • move to a better position in life or to a better job
  • come up, of celestial bodies
  • get up and out of bed
  • increase in value or to a higher point
  • become more extreme
  • rise in rank or status
  • move upward
  • rise up
  • come into existence; take on form or shape
  • increase in volume
  • take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
  • return from the dead
  • come to the surface
  • go up or advance

Synonyms

Examples

  • "she rejected his advances"
  • "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"
  • "the news caused a general advance on the stock market"
  • "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
  • "they asked for a 10% rise in rates"
  • "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son"
  • "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike"
  • "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
  • "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
  • "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
  • "The audience got up and applauded"
  • "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown"
  • "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
  • "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
  • "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
  • "The tension heightened"
  • "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"
  • "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
  • "The building rose before them"
  • "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
  • "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
  • "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"
  • "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

Parts of Speech

Noun
Noun, Verb

Related

See also

Sentences with the word Overture?
Sentences with the word Rise?
What is another word for Overture?
What is another word for Rise?