Exact Match for "up"
- up⇄adj. 1. advanced; forward.
2. going or pointed upward.
Ex. an up trend.
3. above the ground or horizon.
Ex. The sun is up. The wheat is up.
4. out of bed.
Ex. On Christmas morning the children were up at dawn.up⇄adv. 1. from a lower to a higher place or condition; to, toward, or near the top.
Ex. The bird flew up.
2. in a higher place or condition; on or at a higher level.
Ex. We stayed up in the mountains several days.
3. from a smalleup⇄expr. on the up and up,
a. (Informal.) increasing; rising; improving.
Ex. Attendances and sales at recent exhibitions of the Royal Academy have been on the up and up (London Times).
b. (Slang.) honest; legitimate.
Ex. ""All my bup⇄expr. up against, (Informal.) facing as a thing to be dealt with.
Ex. First, we are up against a dynamic opponent whose strident anti-Americanism will not soon die away (New Yorker).up⇄expr. up and doing, busy; active.
Ex. If the Labor party's supporters had been up and doing, the party's losses would not have been so great (New York Times).up⇄expr. up and down, here and there; at various points; in many or different places throughout an area.
Ex. There are many fine examples of reinforced concrete storage bunkers up and down the country (London Times).up⇄expr. up for,
a. a candidate for.
Ex. to be up for senator, be up for reelection.
b. on trial in a court of law for.
Ex. He is up for robbery.up⇄expr. up to,
a. as far or as high as.
Ex. up to one's elbows in work.
b. till; until.
Ex. up to the present day.
c. reaching the limit of; fulfilling.
Ex. work not up to expectations.
d. doing; about to do.up⇄noun 1. an upward movement, course, or slope.
2. a piece of good luck.
3. (U.S. Slang.) upper (def. 3).up⇄prep. 1. to a higher place on or at a higher place in.
Ex. The cat ran up the tree.
2. to, toward, or near the top of.
Ex. They climbed up a hill.
3. along; through.
Ex. She walked up the street.
4. toward or in theUP⇄UP(no periods)orU.P.
(formerly) United Press. Now, UPI (no periods).up⇄up, adverb, preposition, adjective, noun, verb, upped,upping.up⇄v.t. to put up.
Ex. They upped the price of eggs.
Starts With "up"
- up quark⇄up quark
a quark having a charge of + 2/3 and a spin of + 1/2.
Ex. It was possible to distinguish between two types of quarks on the basis of their different masses and electric charges. These were called ""up quarks"" and ""down quarks"" (She - up-⇄up-,prefix.
up, as in ?upland, upkeep, uphold, upstart, upbeat, uplifted, upstanding, uprising. - up-anchor⇄up-anchor, intransitive verb.
to weigh or heave up the anchor.
Ex. Once the cargo is on board the captain will up-anchor (New York Times). - up-and-comer⇄up-and-comer, noun.
an up-and-coming person or thing.
Ex. The very best of the Beatles' music was an expression of sheer delight at being a tightly-knit group of attractive young up-and-comers (Sunday Times). - up-and-coming⇄up-and-coming, adjective.
1. on the way to prominence or success; promising; active; alert; enterprising.
Ex. an up-and-coming singer or politician, a small but up-and-coming college. One reason up-and-coming riders are scarce is that the big - up-and-down⇄up-and-down, adjective.
1a. occurring alternately upward and downward.
Ex. The flapping of an insect's wings is no mere up-and-down motion (Scientific American).
b. alternately rising and falling; presenting variations comparable to mov - up-bow⇄up-bow, noun.
a stroke toward the handle or lower end of the bow in playing a violin, cello, or the like. - up-do⇄up-do, noun.
a hairdo in which the hair is swept upwards and piled on top of the head. - up-front⇄up-front, adjective.
(U.S. Informal.) not concealed; direct; forthright.
Ex. an up-front attitude toward racism. The up-front public business he had to do ... was done for him by his surrogates (Newsweek). - up-market⇄adj., adv. of, for, or toward the consumer that is above the average in income.
Ex. It is possible that Chrysler could still move upmarket, but it will need less conservative management from the US parent (New Scientist). - up-market⇄up-market, adjective, adverb, verb.
(Especially British.) - up-market⇄v.t., v.i. to direct toward a higher-income consumer market.
Ex. to up-market Noilly Dry French, plugging heavily the drink's provenance (London Times). - up-tempo⇄up-tempo, adjective.
of rapid or increasing tempo. - up-to-date⇄noun up-to-dateness.
- up-to-date⇄up-to-date, adjective.
1. extending to the present time; based on or inclusive of the latest facts, data, or other information.
Ex. an up-to-date record, an up-to-date textbook.
2. having modern equipment, utilizing the latest technique - up-to-the-minute⇄up-to-the-minute, adjective.
latest; most recent; up-to-date.
Ex. up-to-the-minute news. - up.⇄up.
upper. - Upanishad⇄Upanishad, noun.
any one of a group of ancient Sanskrit Vedic philosophical commentaries. - upas⇄upas, noun.
1. a large, tropical Asian tree of the mulberry family, whose poisonous milky sap is used in making a poison for arrows.
2. the sap itself.
3. a climbing plant of Java, a variety of strychnos, whose poisonous sap is also us - upbear⇄noun upbearer.
- upbear⇄upbear, transitive verb, -bore,-borne,-bearing.
to bear up; raise aloft; support; sustain.
Ex. When other actors faltered ... Julie upbore them (Time). - upbeat⇄adj. 1. upward; rising.
Ex. an upbeat cycle, an upbeat mood.
2. (Informal, Figurative.) hopeful; optimistic; buoyant.
Ex. a motion picture with an upbeat ending. - upbeat⇄noun 1. (Music.)
a. an unaccented beat in a measure, especially one preceding a downbeat.
Ex. [He] began with the upbeat, an open-string quarter-note G, and I recognized the dearly familiar beginning of Opus 18, No. 4 (New Yorker).
b. - upbeat⇄upbeat, noun, adjective.
- upbind⇄upbind, transitive verb, -bound,-binding.
to bind up. - upblaze⇄upblaze, intransitive verb, -blazed,-blazing.
to blaze up; shoot up, as a flame. - upblown⇄upblown, adjective.
blown up; inflated; puffed up. - upbore⇄upbore, verb.
the past tense of upbear. - upborne⇄upborne, adjective, verb.
- upborne⇄adj. borne up; raised aloft; supported.
verb the past participle of upbear. - upbound⇄upbound (1), adjective, adverb.
upward bound; in an upward direction. - upbound⇄upbound (2), verb.
the past tense and past participle of upbind. - upbraid⇄noun upbraider.
- upbraid⇄upbraid, transitive verb.
to find fault with; blame; reprove.
Ex. to upbraid a person for his errors. The captain upbraided the guards for falling asleep.
(SYN) reproach, censure. - upbraiding⇄adj. full of reproach; reproving.
- upbraiding⇄adv. upbraidingly.
- upbraiding⇄noun a severe reproof; scolding.
- upbraiding⇄upbraiding, noun, adjective.
- upbrake⇄upbrake, verb.
(Archaic.) a past tense of upbreak. - upbreak⇄noun a breaking or bursting up; an upburst.
- upbreak⇄upbreak, verb, -brokeor (Archaic)-brake,-brokenor (Archaic.)-broke,-breaking,noun.
- upbreak⇄v.i. to break or force a way upward; come to the surface; appear.
- upbreathe⇄upbreathe, transitive verb, -breathed,-breathing.
(Obsolete.) to breathe up or out; exhale. - upbred⇄upbred, verb.
the past tense and past participle of upbreed. - upbreed⇄upbreed, transitive verb, -bred,-breeding.
to improve the quality of by mating with superior strains or breeds.
Ex. The technique of artificial insemination helps a farmer with poor herds to upbreed his herd only by slow stages (Time). - upbringing⇄upbringing, noun.
care and training given to a child while growing up; bringing-up; rearing.
Ex. to devote care to the upbringing of one's children. - upbroke⇄upbroke, verb.
1. a past tense of upbreak.
2. (Archaic.) a past participle of upbreak. - upbroken⇄upbroken, verb.
a past participle of upbreak. - upbuild⇄noun upbuilder.
- upbuild⇄upbuild, transitive verb, -built,-building.
to build up. - upbuilt⇄upbuilt, verb.
the past tense and past participle of upbuild. - upburst⇄upburst, noun.
a burst upward; an uprush. - UPC⇄UPC(no periods),
Universal Product Code. - upcast⇄adj. turned or directed upward.
- upcast⇄noun 1. the act of casting or state of being cast upward.
2. something that is cast or thrown up, such as in digging a trench or pit.
3. the shaft by which the ventilating air of a mine is returned to the surface. - upcast⇄upcast, adjective, noun.
- upcaught⇄upcaught, adjective.
caught or seized up. - upchuck⇄upchuck, transitive verb, intransitive verb.
(Informal.) to vomit. - upclimb⇄upclimb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -climbedor (Archaic)-clomb,-climbing.
to climb up. - upclomb⇄upclomb, verb.
(Archaic.) a past tense and past participle of upclimb. - upcoil⇄upcoil, transitive verb, intransitive verb. coil.
- upcoming⇄upcoming, adjective.
forthcoming; approaching; impending.
Ex. the upcoming semester. - upconvert⇄upconvert, transitive verb.
to change by means of an upconverter.
Ex. A laser beam can be used to upconvert infrared light to visible light (New Yorker). - upconverter⇄upconverter, noun.
a converter from one form of radiant energy to another.
Ex. An upconverter ... can produce a three-dimensional color image from infrared waves (Science News). - upcountry⇄adj. of or in the interior of a country.
Ex. an upcountry village. - upcountry⇄adv. toward, in, or into the interior of a country.
Ex. He went hunting upcountry in hopes of finding more game. - upcountry⇄noun the interior of a country.
Ex. The upcountry is sparsely settled. - upcountry⇄upcountry, noun, pl.-tries,adverb, adjective.
- upcurl⇄upcurl, transitive verb, intransitive verb.
to curl up.
Ex. Here are Thumbelina's shoes ... with toes upcurled like the roofs of pagodas (Punch). - upcurrent⇄upcurrent, noun.
a rising current of air; updraft.
Ex. The wind was producing a strong upcurrent as it hit this slope, and a few of the larger birds were taking advantage of it to do some soaring (Manchester Guardian). - upcurve⇄upcurve, noun.
an upward curve; upswing.
Ex. He's on the upcurve of his political fortunes (Time). - upcurved⇄upcurved, adjective.
curved upward; recurved. - update⇄noun 1. a piece of information that modifies previous data used in the operation of a computer, spacecraft, or other device; any current or updated information.
Ex. the reentry update of a spacecraft.
2. an act of updating.
Ex. to vote - update⇄update, verb, -dated,-dating,noun.
- update⇄v.t. to bring up to date; make no longer or relatively less out of date.
Ex. Though their curriculum is continuously updated, many cadets ... would like to see things tougher (Harper's). - updraft⇄updraft, noun.
an upward movement of air, wind, or gas.
Ex. He parachuted from a plane at 2,500 feet over Alabama, but a thunder storm updraft lifted him to 3,000 feet (Wall Street Journal). - updraft carburetor⇄updraft carburetor
a carburetor below the intake manifold in a motor vehicle. - updraught⇄updraught, noun.
(Especially British.) updraft. - updrawn⇄updrawn, adjective.
drawn up. - upend⇄upend, transitive verb, intransitive verb.
to set on end; stand on end.
Ex. If you upend the box it will take less space. - upfield⇄upfield, adverb, adjective.
(in soccer, Rugby, and other field games) in or towards the opposing team's goal.
Ex. to kick the ball upfield (adv.), an upfield kick (adj.). - upflare⇄upflare, noun.
an upward flare. - upflow⇄noun 1. an upward flow.
2. something that flows up. - upflow⇄upflow, verb, noun.
- upflow⇄v.i. to flow up.
- upfold⇄upfold, transitive verb.
to fold up; fold together. - upfurled⇄upfurled, adjective.
furled or rolled up; upfolded. - upgather⇄upgather, transitive verb.
to gather up or together; contract. - upgoing⇄upgoing, adjective.
going up; moving upward. - upgrade⇄adv., adj. uphill; upward.
- upgrade⇄expr. on the upgrade, increasing, as in strength, power, or value; rising; improving.
Ex. The growing company's sales are on the upgrade. - upgrade⇄noun 1. an upward slope or incline.
2. the act or fact of increasing, as in strength, power, or value; improvement. - upgrade⇄upgrade, noun, adverb, adjective, verb, -graded,-grading.
- upgrade⇄v.t. 1. to raise, as the status or rating of; raise to a higher position with a higher salary.
Ex. to upgrade an employee.
2. to sell (a product of lesser worth) as a substitute for a product of greater worth, charging the higher price. - upgrew⇄upgrew, verb.
the past tense of upgrow. - upgrow⇄upgrow, intransitive verb, -grew,-grown,-growing.
to grow up. - upgrown⇄upgrown, verb.
the past participle of upgrow. - upgrowth⇄upgrowth, noun.
1. the process of growing up; development.
Ex. To be ashamed with ... noble shame is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue (Charles Kingsley).
2. something that has grown or is growing up. - upgush⇄noun an upward gush.
- upgush⇄upgush, verb, noun.
- upgush⇄v.i. to gush up.
- upheap⇄upheap, transitive verb.
to pile or heap up; accumulate. - upheaval⇄upheaval, noun.
1a. the act or fact of heaving up.
b. the state of being heaved up.
2. (Figurative.) a sudden or violent agitation; great turmoil.
Ex. with post-war social upheaval at its height (Manchester Guardian). Tension sta - upheave⇄upheave, verb, -heavedor-hove,-heaving.
- upheave⇄v.i. rise.
- upheave⇄v.t. to heave up; lift up; raise.
Ex. land upheaved by volcanic forces. - upheld⇄upheld, verb.
the past tense and past participle of uphold.
Ex. The higher court upheld the lower court's decision. - uphill⇄adj. 1. up the slope of a hill; upward.
Ex. It is an uphill road all the way.
2. situated on high ground; elevated.
Ex. an uphill pasture.
3. (Figurative.) difficult.
Ex. an uphill fight. - uphill⇄adv. upward.
Ex. We walked a mile uphill. - uphill⇄noun an upward slope; ascent.
- uphill⇄uphill, adjective, adverb, noun.
- uphill orbit⇄uphill orbit
the orbit of a rocket or satellite in which it must pull against the sun's gravitational force. - uphold⇄noun upholder.
- uphold⇄uphold, transitive verb, -held,-holding.
1. to give support to; confirm.
Ex. The principal upheld the teacher's decision.
(SYN) sustain.
2. to hold up; not let down; keep from falling; support.
Ex. Walls uphold the roof. We - upholster⇄upholster, transitive verb.
1. to provide (chairs or sofas) with coverings, cushions, springs, or stuffing.
2. to furnish (a room), as with curtains and rugs. - upholsterer⇄upholsterer, noun.
a person whose business is to cover furniture and provide it with cushions, springs, and stuffing, and sometimes also to furnish and put in place curtains and rugs. - upholsterer bee⇄upholsterer bee
any one of various bees which cut small, regularly-shaped pieces of leaves or flower petals to use as a lining for their cells. - upholstery⇄upholstery, noun, pl.-steries.
1. the coverings for chairs or sofas; cushions, springs, and stuffing for furniture.
2. the business of upholstering. - uphove⇄uphove, verb.
a past tense and past participle of upheave. - uphroe⇄uphroe, noun.
(Nautical.) euphroe. - UPI⇄UPI(no periods),
United Press International (an independent news-gathering agency that distributes news, photographs, and feature stories to its subscribers). - upjeweling⇄upjeweling, noun.
the addition of jewel bearings to imported watch movements brought in with jewels missing under lower customs duties. - upkeep⇄upkeep, noun.
1. the act of keeping or condition of being kept up or in good repair; maintenance.
Ex. the upkeep of a house.
2. the cost of operating and repair.
Ex. The upkeep of a yacht is very expensive. - upland⇄adj. of high land; living, growing, or situated on high land.
Ex. upland flowers. upland meadows. - upland⇄expr. uplands, a hilly or mountainous region or section.
Ex. the uplands of the American West. - upland⇄noun 1. elevated or hilly ground; high land.
2. (Archaic.) upcountry. - upland⇄upland, noun, adjective.
- upland cotton⇄upland cotton
a type of cotton having a short staple, much grown in the United States. - upland cress⇄upland cress,winter cress.
- upland plover⇄upland plover
a large American sandpiper frequenting upland fields and pastures. - upland rice⇄upland rice
rice that grows where there is much rain. Upland rice needs no irrigation. - uplander⇄uplander, noun.
1. an inhabitant of the uplands.
2. upland plover. - uplands⇄uplands, noun pl.
See under upland. - uplift⇄noun uplifter.
- uplift⇄noun 1. the act of lifting up.
2. emotional or spiritual exaltation.
3. social or moral improvement or effort toward it.
Ex. Now you look here! The first thing you got to understand is that all this uplift ... and settlement work and - uplift⇄uplift, verb, noun.
- uplift⇄v.t. 1. to lift or move up; raise; elevate.
Ex. At thy voice her pining sons uplifted Their prostrate brows (Shelley).
2. to exalt emotionally or spiritually.
Ex. to uplift the mind and soul by prayer.
3. to raise socially or ec - upliftment⇄upliftment, noun. uplift.
- uplink⇄uplink, noun.
the communications connection for the transmission of signals from a ground station to a spacecraft or satellite.
Ex. Oscar 6 [an amateur artificial satellite] received signals in the 145.9-146.0 MHz range (uplink) and retransmit - upload⇄upload, transitive verb, intransitive verb.
to transmit information from a terminal to a databank or from a smaller to a larger computer. - uplooking⇄uplooking, adjective.
looking up; aspiring. - uplying⇄uplying, adjective.
1. elevated.
2. (of land) upland. - upmanship⇄upmanship, noun. one-upmanship.
- upmost⇄upmost, adjective. uppermost.
- upon⇄adv. (Obsolete.)1a. on the surface.
b. on one's person.
2. thereafter; thereupon. - upon⇄prep. on.
Ex. He stood upon the ladder. - upon⇄upon, preposition, adverb.
- upper⇄adj. 1. that is the higher of two:
a. higher in position or location.
Ex. the upper lip, an upper berth.
b. higher in rank, office, or station; superior.
Ex. the upper grades in school, the upper classes.
2. above the bot - upper⇄expr. on one's uppers, (Informal.)
a. with the soles of one's shoes worn out.
Ex. to walk on one's uppers.
b. (Figurative.) very shabby or poor.
Ex. I'm on my uppers ... I want money (R. Marsh). - upper⇄expr. uppers, (U.S.) an upper set of false teeth.
Ex. The short upper lip ... makes him look like he doesn't have his uppers in (Time). - upper⇄noun 1. the part of a shoe or boot above the sole.
2. (Informal.) an upper berth.
3. (U.S. Slang.) a stimulant drug.
Ex. ... an excessive number of amphetamine tablets and assorted other ""uppers"" (Harper's).
4. (U.S., Archaic - upper⇄upper, adjective, noun.
- upper air⇄upper air oratmosphere
the stratosphere and ionosphere. - upper bound⇄upper bound
(Mathematics.) a number which is higher than or equal to a given function. - Upper Carboniferous⇄Upper Carboniferous
(Geology.) the name outside of North America for the Pennsylvanian period of Carboniferous time. - upper case⇄upper case
1. capital letters. (Abbr:) u.c.
2. (Printing.) a frame in which types for capital letters are kept for hand setting. - upper class⇄upper class
1. a class of society above the middle class, having the highest social and economic status. The upper class includes the aristocracy, the gentry, and those with the highest incomes and the most power in society.
2. the junior and - upper crust⇄upper crust
1. (Informal.) the upper classes.
Ex. The St. Louis upper crust had looked down their noses at the fair as mere vulgar show and noise (Harper's).
2. the upper layer of pastry on a pie. - upper hand⇄upper hand
advantage that is or is likely to prove decisive; control; mastery.
Ex. Do what the doctor says or that cold may get the upper hand. - Upper House⇄Upper House orupper house
the more restricted branch of a lawmaking body that has two branches, made up of members who are less numerous and (usually) less subject to direct control by the voters. The House of Lords is the Upper House of the British - upper register⇄upper register
(Music.) the upper range of a voice or instrument. - upper stage⇄adj. upper-stage.
- upper stage⇄upper stage
a second or later stage of a multistage rocket. - upper story⇄upper story orstorey
(Humorous.) the head as the seat of the mind or intellect; wits.
Ex. He's not overburthen'd i' th' upper storey (George Eliot). - upper transit⇄upper transit
(Astronomy.) the passage of a heavenly body across the upper part of a celestial meridian. - upper works⇄upper works
(Nautical.) the parts of a ship above the surface of the water when it is loaded. - upper-bracket⇄upper-bracket, adjective.
of a higher bracket, rank, or level.
Ex. As to income, 10 per cent of the total population is rated upper-bracket (New York Times). - upper-case⇄adj. 1. in capital letters.
2. capital.
Ex. upper-case letters. - upper-case⇄upper-case, adjective, verb, -cased,-casing.
(Printing.) - upper-case⇄v.t. to print in capital letters.
- upper-class⇄upper-class, adjective.
1. of, having to do with, or included in the upper class.
Ex. upper-class society.
2. of or having to do with the junior and senior classes in a college or school. - upper-crust⇄upper-crust, adjective.
(Informal.) of or having to do with the upper classes. - upperclassman⇄upperclassman, noun, pl.-men.
a junior or senior in a college or school. - uppercut⇄noun a swinging blow with the fist directed upward from beneath; punch that is delivered at a sharp upward angle.
- uppercut⇄uppercut, noun, verb, -cut,-cutting.
(Boxing.) - uppercut⇄v.t., v.i. to strike with or deliver such a blow.
- uppermost⇄adj. 1. highest; topmost.
Ex. the uppermost reaches of the Amazon.
2. having the most force or influence; most prominent. - uppermost⇄adv. 1. in, at, or near the top.
2. first.
Ex. The safety of her children was uppermost in the mother's mind. - uppermost⇄uppermost, adjective, adverb.
- uppers⇄uppers, noun pl.
See under upper. - upperstock⇄upperstock, noun.
a high stocking worn by men in the 1500's with netherstocks. - upperworld⇄upperworld, noun. overworld.
- uppiled⇄uppiled, adjective.
piled up; upheaped. - upping⇄upping, noun.
the nicking of the upper part of the beak of a swan to indicate its ownership, especially (in Great Britain) its ownership by the sovereign. - uppish⇄adv. uppishly.
- uppish⇄noun uppishness.
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