1) a raised place (table or platform) used in religious services (as in Christian churches) (altar)

2) a raised road or footpath, especially across wet land (causeway)

3) thick, cotton cloth with raised lines on it (corduroys)

4) a raised platform form in a large room for a speaker (dais)

5) (the movable covering over) an opening in a ceiling or floor, especially (hatchway) one in a ship's deck through which cargo is lowered and raised (hatch)

6) a room (in a house etc) for the special use of small children; a place where young plants and trees are raised (nursery)

7) a separate part of the surface of a door, wall etc raised above or sunk below the surrounding area; a board or other surface for controls and instruments (panel)

8) a raised and enclosed structure in a church, used when preaching (pulpit)

9) a raised line where two sloping surfaces meet; a long mountain range; a long stretch of high land between the tops of a line of hills (ridge)

10) (in a theatre) the raised structure on which the actors appear; a point, period or step in development; a journey, distance, between two stopping-places along a road or route (stage)