Usually means: Pipe carrying fluid upwards vertically.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. riser: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. riser: Merriam-Webster
  3. riser: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. riser: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. riser: Collins English Dictionary
  6. riser: Vocabulary.com
  7. Riser, riser: Wordnik
  8. riser: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Riser, riser: Wiktionary
  10. riser: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. riser: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. riser: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. riser: Dictionary.com
  14. riser: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Riser (album), Riser (casting), Riser (song), Riser: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Riser: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. riser: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. riser: Rhymezone
  19. Riser: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. riser: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. riser: FreeDictionary.org
  22. riser: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. riser: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. riser: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. riser: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RISER: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. riser: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Riser: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Riser: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Riser: Construction Glossary
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone or something which rises.
noun:  A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
noun:  (carpentry) A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
noun:  (archery) The main body of a bow.
noun:  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).
noun:  A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
noun:  A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
noun:  A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
noun:  (Casting (metalworking)) a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.
noun:  (colloquial, countable) A male's erection.
noun:  A surname.

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