RISER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riser mean? 

• RISER (noun)
  The noun RISER has 3 senses:

1. a person who rises (especially from bed)

2. a vertical pipe in a building

3. structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step

  Familiarity information: RISER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who rises (especially from bed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he's usually a late riser

Hypernyms ("riser" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riser"):

early bird (a person who gets up very early in the morning)

Derivation:

rise (get up and out of bed)

rise (rise to one's feet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A vertical pipe in a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

riser; riser main; riser pipe; riser pipeline

Hypernyms ("riser" is a kind of...):

pipage; pipe; piping (a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("riser" is a kind of...):

structural member (support that is a constituent part of any structure or building)

Holonyms ("riser" is a part of...):

stair; step (support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway)

 Context examples 

If you’re not an early riser, no worries.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

"I see you are an early riser."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is always an early riser.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I am an early riser and generally take a walk before breakfast.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This morning, being an early riser, he walked in that direction before breakfast and was overtaken by the carriage of Dr. Richards, who explained that he had just been sent for on a most urgent call to Tredannick Wartha.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)