up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ʌp/
ipa: [ɐʔp]
ipa: [ʊp]
enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ʌp/
ipa: [ʌp̚]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ʌp]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ʊp]
ipa: /ɐp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Etymology: From Middle English up, op, oup, from Old English upp, up, ūp (“up”), from Proto-West Germanic *upp, *ūp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, *eup (“up”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ap (“up”), West Frisian op (“up”), Dutch op (“up”), German Low German up, op (“up”), German auf (“up”), Danish op (“up”), Swedish upp (“up”), Icelandic upp (“up”), Gothic 𐌹𐌿𐍀 (iup, “up”).
Senses: examples: text: I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
text: Shoots grow up and roots grow down.
glosses: Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
examples: text: All day we climbed up and up.
text: Lift the carpet up and look underneath.
text: He lives up in the hills.
text: 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie
‘The Phantom! The Phantom is up from the cellars again!’
glosses: Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
examples: text: sit up; stand up; get up out of bed
glosses: Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
To an upright or erect position.
examples: text: Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.
text: Turn it up, I can barely hear it.
text: Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question.
text: Cheer up, the weekend's almost here.
glosses: Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
examples: text: Go back up to the top of the page.
text: As I lay on my back, a pain shot up from my toes to my chest.
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
examples: text: I live in Florida, but I'm going up to New York to visit my family this weekend.
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
examples: text: We travelled from Yorkshire up to London.
text: I'm going up to the other end of town.
text: He lives up by the railway station.
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
examples: text: She's going up to read Classics this September.
text: The son of the Dean of Lichfield was only three years older than Steele, who was a lad of only twelve, when at the age of fifteen, Addison went up to Oxford.
ref: 1867, John Timbs, Lives of wits and humourists, page 125:
text: Others insinuated that women 'crowded up to Cambridge', not for the benefits of a higher education, but because of the proximity of 2,000 young men.
ref: 1998, Rita McWilliams Tullberg, Women at Cambridge, page 112:
text: A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge.
ref: 2002, Peter Harman, Cambridge Scientific Minds, page 79:
topics: academia
scholarly
sciences
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
To university, especially to Cambridge or Oxford.
topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
Against the wind or current.
examples: text: We started in London and rowed all the way up to Oxford.
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
glosses: Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
In a positive vertical direction.
qualifier: Cartesian graph
examples: text: I was up to my chin in water.
text: A stranger came up and asked me for directions.
text: I'm going to be walking quickly, but try to keep up with me.
glosses: To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
examples: text: I will mix up the puzzle pieces.
text: Tear up the contract.
text: He really messed up.
text: Please type up our monthly report.
text: Drink up. The pub is closing.
text: Can you sum up your research?
text: The meteor burned up in the atmosphere.
text: I need to sew up the hole in this shirt.
glosses: Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
examples: text: I picked up some milk on the way home.
text: The committee will take up your request.
glosses: To one's possession or consideration.
examples: text: She had to give up her driver's license after the accident.
text: Instead of apologising, he offered up excuse after excuse.
glosses: From one's possession or consideration.
examples: to lay up riches; put up your weapons
glosses: Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
examples: text: The bowler pitched the ball up.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Relatively close to the batsman.
examples: text: A Cosmopolitan is typically served up.
glosses: Without additional ice.
Synonyms: sense: away from the centre of the Earth
word: alley oop
Derived terms: any road up
backup
balloon goes up
bottom-up
clean-up
close-up
double-up
follow-up
keep someone up late
lead someone up the garden path
link-up
linkup
lookup
one-up
one-upmanship
pop-up
runup
start-up
tip up
tip-up
update
upend
upfront
upgrade
uphill
uphold
upkeep
upload
upness
upon
upper
uppity
upright
uprise
upriver
uproar
upset
upshot
upside
upstairs
upstart
upstream
uptick
upto
uptown
upvote
upward
upwind
upzone
walkup
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word: all it's cracked up to be
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word: back up
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word: blow up
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word: bottoms up
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word: break up
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word: buck up
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word: buffer up
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word: build up
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word: burn up
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word: clean up
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word: clear up
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word: clog up
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word: close up
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word: cloud up
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word: cosy up
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word: cozy up
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word: crack up
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word: cuddle up
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word: curl up
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word: cut up
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word: double up
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word: dress up
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word: dry up
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word: eat up
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word: finish up
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word: gang up
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word: gang up on
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word: go up
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word: kick up
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word: knock up
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word: lash up
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word: let up
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word: link up
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word: look up
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word: lookup
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word: muck up
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word: open up
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word: polish up
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word: runner up
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word: run up
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word: shake up
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word: shoot up
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word: show up
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word: shut up
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word: snuggle up
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word: stir up
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word: stop up
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word: studs up
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word: turn up
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word: up and at 'em
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word: up for
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word: up to
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word: up to it
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word: wet up
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word: work up
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word: write up