Up vs Do - What's the difference?

up | do |

As a verb up

is to upturn, to turn over.

As a noun do is

the bright time of the day (chiefly in adverbial constructions).

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.

Further along (in any direction).

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.

* {{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.

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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do

English

(wikipedia do)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(auxiliary)

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(auxiliary)

* , chapter=7

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(auxiliary)

To perform; to execute.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing ",

(obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), ''(The Faerie Queene), II.vi:

Sometimes to doe him laugh, she would assay / To laugh at shaking of the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke

* W. Caxton

My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences.

* Spenser

a fatal plague which many did to die

* Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 1

We do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.

(transitive) To suffice.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

"Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.

To be reasonable or acceptable.

To have (as an effect).

To fare; to succeed or fail.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

(chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.

To cook.

* , Three Men In a Boat

, passage=It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.}}

* {{quote-news, 1944, , , News from the Suburbs, Punch citation

, passage=We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.}}

* {{quote-book, 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page=99, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=V63jCdQpv2kC&pg=PA99

, passage=Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.}}

To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.

* {{quote-book, 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, edition=1957 ed., page=, pageurl=

, passage=We 'did ' London to our heart's content, thanks to Fred and Frank, and were sorry to go away,

* {{quote-book, 1892, James Batchelder, Multum in Parvo: Notes from the Life and Travels of James Batchelder, page=97 citation

, passage=After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London

* {{quote-news, 1968, July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, Nice Place to Visit, New York Magazine citation

, passage=No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker

To treat in a certain way.

* {{quote-news, 1894, , , , Harper's citation

, passage=They did me well, I assure you — uncommon well: Bellinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince;

* 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,

Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.

* {{quote-book, 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, page=50 citation

, passage="Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."}}

To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.

* Bible, 2 Kings xvii. 34

They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment.

To spend (time) in jail.

To impersonate or depict.

(slang) To kill.

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* {{quote-book, 2007, E.J. Churchill, page=153, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ytW6LcwIrXQC&pg=PA153, The Lazarus Code

, passage=The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.}}

(slang) To have sex with. (See also do it )

* {{quote-book, c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, section=Act IV, scene II, pageurl=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Titus_Andronicus

, passage=Demetrius'': "Villain, what hast thou done?"
''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
''Aaron : "Villain, I have done thy mother."}}

* {{quote-book, 1996, James Russell Kincaid, My Secret Life, page=81, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=q2cQiUtWftwC&pg=PA82

, passage=

* {{quote-book, 2008, On the Line, Donna Hill, page=84 citation

, passage=The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.}}

To cheat or swindle.

* De Quincey

He was not to be done , at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.

To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.

(intransitive) To finish.

(UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for ).

* 1915 , Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections

I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.

(archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.

* 1844 , William Barnes, Evenén in the Village , Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:

...An' the dogs do''' bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water '''do roar at mill.

(stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.

(informal) To make or provide.

Do they do haircuts there?

Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?

Usage notes

* In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use and verbs had a distinct second-person singular present-tense form, the verb .

Antonyms

* don't

Derived terms

* can do with * do a… * doable * do by * do by halves * do down * doer * do for * do in * do it * do right by * done * do-over * do somebody wrong * do the trick * do time * do up * do well by doing good * do with mirrors * do without * fordo * misdo * redo * overdo * to do with * underdo * undo

Noun

(en noun)

(colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.

We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.

* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]

After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do , in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.

(informal) A hairdo.

Nice do !

(colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument. (rfex)

Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts ).

(obsolete) A deed; an act.

(Sir Walter Scott)

(archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do

* Selden

A great deal of do , and a great deal of trouble.

(obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.

Synonyms

* (period of confusion or argument) to-do * get-together

Usage notes

For the plural of the noun, the spelling is often used for the sake of legibility, but is sometimes considered incorrect. For the party, the term is generally used only by older adults and usually implies a social function of modest size and formality.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) do.

Alternative forms

* doh

Noun

(en noun)

(music) A syllable used in to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.

Synonyms

* ut (archaic)

Etymology 3

Short for ditto.

Adverb

(-)

(rare)

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