up English
( part of speech is dubious for many senses)
( wikipedia up)
Adverb
( -)
Away from the centre of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
(intensifier) (Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state) Thoroughly, completely.
- I will mix up the puzzle pieces.
- Tear up the contract.
- He really messed up .
- Please type up our monthly report.
To or from one's possession or consideration.
- I picked up some milk on the way home.
- The committee will take up your request.
- She had to give up her driver's license after the accident.
North.
- I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend.
To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.
- Turn it up , I can barely hear it.
- Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question.
- Cheer up , the weekend's almost here.
(rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
(sailing) Against the wind or current.
(Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
(cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
- The bowler pitched the ball up .
(hospitality) Without additional ice.
- Would you like that drink up or on ice?
(UK, academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.
- She's going up to read Classics this September.
* 1867 , John Timbs, Lives of wits and humourists , p. 125
- 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.
* 1998 , Rita McWilliams Tullberg, Women at Cambridge , p. 112
- 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.
* 2002 , Peter Harman, Cambridge Scientific Minds , p. 79
- A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge.
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 .
- I was up to my chin in water.
- A stranger came up and asked me for directions.
To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite.
- Drink up . The pub is closing.
- Can you sum up your research?
- The comet burned up in the atmosphere.
- I need to sew up the hole in this shirt.
Aside, so as not to be in use.
- to lay up''' riches; put '''up your weapons
Antonyms
* (away from the centre of the Earth) down
* (louder) down
* (higher in pitch) down
* (towards the principal terminus) down
Derived terms
* all it's cracked up to be
* back up
* backup
* bottoms up
* bottom-up
* blow up
* break up
* buck up
* build up
* burn up
* clog up
* cloud up
* clean up
* clear up
* close up
* crack up
* cut up
* double up
* dress up
* dry up
* eat up
* finish up
* gang up
* gang up on
* go up
* kick up
* knock up
* lash up
* let up
* look up
* lookup
* muck up
* one-up
* one-upmanship
* open up
* polish up
* run up
* runner up
* runup
* shake up
* shoot up
* show up
* shut up
* stir up
* stop up
* turn up
* up a tree
* up to
* up to it
* upon
* upper
* uppity
* upto
* upward
* upwards
* walkup
* wet up
* work up
* write up
Preposition
( English prepositions)
Toward the top of.
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Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
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Further along (in any direction).
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From south to north of
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
Antonyms
* (toward the top of) down
Derived terms
* give up
* pick up
* put up
* ring up
* take up
* throw up
* up a creek
* up someone's alley
Adjective
( -)
Awake.
- I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up .
Finished, to an end
- Time is up !
In a good mood.
- I’m feeling up today.
Willing; ready.
- If you are up for a trip, let’s go.
Next in a sequence.
- Smith is up to bat.
Happening; new.
- What is up with that project at headquarters?
Facing upwards; facing toward the top.
- Put the notebook face up on the table.
- Take a break and put your feet up .
Larger, greater in quantity.
- Sales are up from last quarter.
Standing.
- Get up and give her your seat.
On a higher level.
* 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), , silent movie
- ‘The Phantom! The Phantom is up from the cellars again!’
Available; made public.
- The new notices are up as of last Tuesday.
Well-informed; current.
- I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on?
(computing) Functional; working.
- Is the server back up ?
(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- The London train is on the up line.
Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
(bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.
- A Cosmopolitan is typically served up .
(slang) Erect.
(of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time)
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
- I have said I was still in darkness, yet it was not the blackness of the last night; and looking up into the inside of the tomb above, I could see the faintest line of light at one corner, which showed the sun was up .
(slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
* 1996 , Matthew Busby Hunt, The Sociolinguistics of Tagging and Chicano Gang Graffiti (page 71)
- Being "up" means having numerous graffiti in the tagging landscape.
* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (pages 16-40)
- Graffiti writers want their names seen by writers and others so that they will be famous. Therefore writers are very serious about any opportunity to “get up'.” The throw-up became one of the fundamental techniques for getting ' up , and thereby gaining recognition and fame.
* 2011 , Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti
- From his great rooftop pieces, selected for high visibility, to his sneaky tags and fun loving stickers, he most certainly knows how to get up .
Antonyms
* (facing upwards) down
* (on a higher level) down
* down
* (traveling towards a major terminus) down
Derived terms
* know which end is up
* up and running
* up for grabs
* upside
* upside down
Noun
( en-noun)
(uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- Up is a good way to go.
(countable) A positive thing.
- I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.
An upstairs room of a two story house.
- She lives in a two-up two-down.
Usage notes
* Up is not commonly used as object of a preposition.
Antonyms
* (direction opposed to the pull of gravity) down
Derived terms
* ups and downs
Verb
( upp)
(colloquial) To increase or raise.
- If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details.
- We upped anchor and sailed away.
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* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 10
, author=Marc Higginson
, title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa
, work=BBC Sport
citation
, passage=After a dreadful performance in the opening 45 minutes, they upped their game after the break and might have taken at least a point from the match.}}
(colloquial) To promote.
- It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.
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To act suddenly, usually with another verb.
- He just upped and quit.
- He upped and punched that guy.
* 1991 , (Michael Jackson),
- And she didn't leave a letter, she just upped and ran away.
Synonyms
* (increase) turn up
Derived terms
* up and
* up and go
* up and leave
* up the ante
* up the game
References
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
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climb English
Verb
To ascend; rise; to go up.
- Prices climbed steeply.
* Dryden
- Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
To mount; to move upwards on.
- They climbed the mountain.
- Climbing a tree
To scale; to get to the top of something.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=May 22, author=David Harrison
, title=American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest
, work=Daily Telegraph online
citation
, page=
, passage=He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest.}}
To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
* 1900 , (James Frazer), (The Golden Bough) Chapter 65
- A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.
* 1900 , , ''(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
- She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
* 2008 , Tony Atkins, Dragonhawk - the Turning
- Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.
to practise the sport of climbing
to jump high
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28
, author=Paul Fletcher, title=Man City 4 - 0 Aston Villa, work=BBC
citation
, page=
, passage=The defender climbed majestically at the near post to convert Johnson's corner. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=September 13
, title=Ospreys Glasgow Magners League, work=South Wales Evening Post
citation
, page=
, passage=As the game moved towards injury time, the Ospreys forced a line-out which Jonathan Thomas climbed high to take.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=December 29, author=Derick Allsop
, title=Bolton's nine men hit back to steal a point, work=Daily Telegraph online
citation
, page=
, passage=Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southall's centre.}}
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
Usage notes
In the past, the forms clomb'' and ''clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectical.
Derived terms
* climb down
* climb down someone's throat
* climb up
* climb the ladder
* climb the walls
* climber
* declimb
* have a mountain to climb
* unclimbed
Synonyms
(get to the top of)
* scale
Noun
( wikipedia climb)
( en noun)
An act of climbing.
* 2007 , Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques
- Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb .
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb , its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.
* 1999 , B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues
- I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
An upwards struggle
* {{quote-news
, year=1998
, date=September 30
, author=AP
, title=Worst May Lie Ahead For Asia, Report Warns
, work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
citation
, page=
, passage=After a decade of prosperity, millions of Asians are likely to be pushed into poverty, and the climb out of poverty will stall for millions of others}}
Derived terms
* rate of climb
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