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Up

adverb

1.

Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position. Synonyms: upward, upwardly, upwards. "The music surged up" , "The fragments flew upwards" , "Prices soared upwards" , "Upwardly mobile"

2.

To a higher intensity.

3.

Nearer to the speaker.

4.

To a more central or a more northerly place. "Up to Canada for a vacation"

5.

To a later time. Synonyms: upward, upwards. "From childhood upward"

verb

1.

Raise.

adjective

1.

Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level. "The sun is up" , "He lay face up" , "He is up by a pawn" , "The market is up" , "The corn is up"

2.

Out of bed. Synonym: astir. "Up by seven each morning"

3.

Getting higher or more vigorous. Synonym: improving. "An improving economy"

4.

Extending or moving toward a higher place. Synonym: upward. "A general upward movement of fish"

5.

(usually followed by 'on' or 'for') in readiness. "Had to be up for the game"

6.

Open.

7.

(used of computers) operating properly.

8.

Used up.

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"Up" Quotes from Famous Books

... and answered, "We cannot think otherwise, papa, for our love, our lives, and all are bound up in you." ...

— Without a Home • E. P. Roe

... Frank!) had none; nor the "Parent's Assistant;" nor the "Evenings at Home;" nor our copy of the "Ami des Enfans:" there were a few just at the end of the Spelling-Book; besides the allegory at the beginning, of Education leading up Youth to the temple of Industry, where Dr. Dilworth and Professor Walkinghame stood with crowns of laurel. There were, we say, just a few pictures at the end of the Spelling-Book, little oval gray woodcuts of Bewick's, ...

— John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character • William Makepeace Thackeray

... hasty and should have remained longer to study the peculiarities of this wonderful world of night; but finally he decided to keep on, and soon afterwards we saw the last of the caverns. Then, as there appeared to be no obstructions of any kind, the speed was worked up to a hundred miles an hour. Going straight ahead as we did, there was no danger of ...

— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss

... much, and yet you told me the day we went up the river together that you never had and couldn't care for any one elsebut me. Men are all alike—they ...

— Spring Days • George Moore

... very good words, Sedgwick," said Mr. Thompson approvingly. "The word I had on my tongue was—balderdash. But your thought was happier. Balderdash is a vague and shapeless term. It conjures up no definite vision. But drivel ...

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