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Etymology
urediFrom
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Stari Engleski
upp, from
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Pra-Germanski
*upp, see more there.
Pronunciation
uredi- (UK) enPR: ŭp, MFA(ključ): /ʌp/, [ɐʔp]
- (US) enPR: ŭp, MFA(ključ): /ʌp/, [ʌp̚]
Audio (GA): (file) - (General Australian) MFA(ključ): /ap/, [äp]
Audio (AU): (file) Audio: (file) - Rime: -ʌp
Adverb
urediup (not comparable)
- Away from the surface 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Aside, so as not to be in use.
- to lay up riches; put up your weapons
- (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, US) 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, page 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, page 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, page 79
- A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge.
Synonyms
uredi- (away from the centre of the Earth): alley oop (rare)
Antonyms
uredi- (away from the centre of the Earth): down
- (louder): down
- (higher in pitch): down
- (towards the principal terminus): down
Derived terms
urediTerms derived from up (adverb)
Related terms
urediTerms related to up (adverb)
- all it's cracked up to be
- back up
- blow up
- bottoms up
- break up
- buck up
- build up
- burn up
- clean up
- clear up
- clog up
- close up
- cloud 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
- open up
- polish up
- runner up
- run up
- shake up
- shoot up
- show up
- shut up
- stir up
- stop up
- turn up
- up and at 'em
- up to
- up to it
- wet up
- work up
- write up
Translations
urediaway from earth’s surface
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completely, thoroughly
north
higher, louder
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higher in pitch
rail transport: the direction towards milepost zero
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cricket: relatively close to the batsman
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Preposition
urediup
- Toward the top of.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- The cat went up the tree. They walk up the steps.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- The information made its way up the chain of command to the general. I felt something crawling up my arm.
- Further along (in any direction).
- Go up the street until you see the sign.
- From south to north of
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," 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.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway).
- (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.
- Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her.
- (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location).
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, p. 94:
- “I'll tell you how I got on in the fight if I should see you up the Smokers.”
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, p. 94:
Antonyms
uredi- (toward the top of): down
Related terms
urediTranslations
ureditoward the top
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further along
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Adjective
urediup (not comparable)
- 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.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- The home team were up by two goals at half-time.
- Standing.
- Get up and give her your seat.
- On a higher level.
- The new ground is up.
- 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!’
- Available; made public.
- The new notices are up as of last Tuesday.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- AAKK = aces up
- QQ33 = queens up
- 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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time)
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, 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.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (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.
- 1996, Matthew Busby Hunt, The Sociolinguistics of Tagging and Chicano Gang Graffiti (page 71)
- (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
- 2003, Nicolas Barker, The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth:
- Won by Park Top (Lester Piggott up), at Epsom on June 5, 1969
Antonyms
uredi- (facing upwards): down
- (on a higher level): down
- (computing: Functional): down
- (traveling towards a major terminus): down
Derived terms
urediTranslations
urediawake
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finished
in a good mood
ready, willing
next
facing upwards
standing
on a higher level
available
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informed about
functional
rail transport: traveling towards a major terminus
erect
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Noun
urediup (usually uncountable, plural ups)
- (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
uredi- Up is not commonly used as object of a preposition.
Antonyms
uredi- (direction opposed to the pull of gravity): down
Derived terms
urediRelated terms
urediTranslations
uredidirection opposed to the pull of gravity
Verb
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- (transitive, 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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- 2011 decembar 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- 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.
- (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
- It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.
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- (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb.
- He just upped and quit.
- He upped and punched that guy.
- 1991, Michael Jackson, Who Is It
- And she didn't leave a letter, she just upped and ran away.
- (intransitive) To ascend; to climb up.
- 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, page 10
- "Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me?".
- 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, page 10
- (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
- 100 new apps and games have just been upped.
Synonyms
uredi- (increase): turn up
Derived terms
urediterms derived from up (verb)
Translations
urediincrease
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promote
to act suddenly — see up and
References
uredi- 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
Anagrams
urediMiddle Dutch
urediPreposition
urediup
- Alternative form of op
Adverb
uredi- Alternative form of op
Old English
urediAlternative forms
urediEtymology
urediFrom Pra-Germanski *upp, akin to Old High German ūf, Old Norse upp.
Pronunciation
urediAdverb
urediDescendants
urediOld Saxon
urediEtymology
urediFrom Pra-Germanski *upp.