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[ adverb ] spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
Examples "look up!" "the music surged up" "the fragments flew upwards" "prices soared upwards" "upwardly mobile" Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)In_the_middle of the party Chandler looked up to see four smiling faces bearing_down upon him , each beaming above the biggest , greenest shamrock he had ever seen . Then Mel_Chandler started up the hill . (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead , standing so high that the top falls gently over , as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle . (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)Strindberg 's remedy for this condition was to tear_down the old structures and build anew from the ground up . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)Besides , Miss_Henrietta - as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back - had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; so Cyrus_Adler became interested in her friend Racie_Friedenwald , and Joe_Jastrow - the only young_man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta , and signed himself Joe - fell_in_love with pretty sister Rachel . |
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[ pronoun ] preposition, at or towards a higher place
Examples "John went canoeing up the creek" |
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[ adjective ] being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
Examples "the anchor is up" "the sun is up" "he lay face up" "he is up by a pawn" "the market is up" "the corn is up" Used in print (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)Telephone_wires from Louis_Dufresne 's house in East_Manchester to the Dufresne lumber job near Bourn_Pond were up about 1895 . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)Pa had his head up , glaring , his teeth gnawing at the place where he 'd grown a mustache once . `` Hold his head up . `` Hold his head up '' . |
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[ verb ] raise
Examples "up the ante" Used in print ("National Affairs"...)Fair_Dealer_Humphrey upped the ante , asked cloture power for a mere majority of Senators . (Rhode Island Development Council. Annual Report 1960....)To reach a still greater audience of location-minded manufacturers , our industrial advertising budget for the fiscal_year was increased from $ 32000 to $ 40000 , and the Industrial_Building_Authority 's financial participation was upped from $ 17000 to $ 20000 . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (used of computers) operating properly
Examples "how soon will the computers be up?" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness
Examples "he was up on his homework" "had to be up for the game" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] to a more central or a more northerly place
Examples "was transferred up to headquarters" "up to Canada for a vacation" Related terms |
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[ adverb ] nearer to the speaker
Examples "he walked up and grabbed my lapels" |
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[ interjection ] interjection
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[ adjective ] extending or moving toward a higher place
Synonyms Examples "the up staircase" "a general upward movement of fish" Used in print (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)It speared up_into_the_air , then sinking back , the up jutting branch turned slowly . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] out of bed
Synonyms Examples "are they astir yet?" "up by seven each morning" Used in print (Francis Pollini, Night....)Somebody was up . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)Both had been up since 7 : 00 - Irv on the early morning watch , McFeeley unable to sleep during his four hour relief . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)Argiento had been trained so rigorously by the Jesuits that Michelangelo was unable to change his habits : up before dawn to scrub the floors , whether they were dirty or not ; water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every_day , the pots scoured with river sand after each meal . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)His worries harried him up out of bed , and he lighted a cigarette and went to the window . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)His energy was prodigious ; sometimes he would be up before dawn , clad as a garbage_collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us , and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx_Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar_butts against their paws . Related terms |
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