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Up   /əp/   Listen
adverb
Up  adv.  
1.
Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; the opposite of down. "But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell."
2.
Hence, in many derived uses, specifically:
(a)
From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; used with verbs of motion expressed or implied. "But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop." "I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up." "Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye." "We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference."
(b)
In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. "And when the sun was up, they were scorched." "Those that were up themselves kept others low." "Helen was up was she?" "Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword." "His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance." "Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms." "Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up." "A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up." "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate."
(c)
To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements. "As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him."
(d)
To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent. Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (); to kill up ().
(e)
Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons. Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a command or exhortation. "Up, and let us be going." "Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double."
It is all up with him, it is all over with him; he is lost.
The time is up, the allotted time is past.
To be up in, to be informed about; to be versed in. "Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago."
To be up to.
(a)
To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. (Colloq.)
(b)
To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to. (Colloq.)
To blow up.
(a)
To inflate; to distend.
(b)
To destroy by an explosion from beneath.
(c)
To explode; as, the boiler blew up.
(d)
To reprove angrily; to scold. (Slang)
To bring up. See under Bring, v. t.
To come up with. See under Come, v. i.
To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i.
To draw up. See under Draw, v. t.
To grow up, to grow to maturity.
Up anchor (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor.
Up and down.
(a)
First up, and then down; from one state or position to another. See under Down, adv. "Fortune... led him up and down."
(b)
(Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut.
Up helm (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel.
Up to snuff. See under Snuff. (Slang)
What is up? What is going on? (Slang)


preposition
Up  prep.  
1.
From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of. "In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs."
2.
From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.
3.
Upon. (Obs.) "Up pain of death."


noun
Up  n.  The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs. (Colloq.)
Ups and downs, alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. (Colloq.) "They had their ups and downs of fortune."


adjective
Up  adj.  Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.





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... by the sound of a caleche driving up the avenue. A courier alighted from it, who brought a letter with a black seal, addressed to me. It was from the family solicitor. My noble brother had died in Madeira; where he had gone in the hopeless attempt to recruit a frame which he had exhausted by a life of excess. In that ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... we find along the Tarrant, villages known as Tarrant Gunville, Tarrant Hinton, Tarrant Launceston, Tarrant Monkton, etc.; and along the Winterborne we find Winterborne Houghton, Winterborne Stickland, Winterborne Clenstone, etc.; and in like manner we meet with Monkton up Wimborne, Wimborne Saint Giles, and Wimborne Minster along the course of the Allen. The characteristic name of Winterborne for a brook that is such in winter only, but is a dried-up bed in a hot summer is borne by two streams in Dorset, each giving ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory • Thomas Perkins
... forward to Beaupre's bed, and, awaking him without any consideration, he began to assail him with reproaches. In his trouble and confusion Beaupre vainly strove to rise; the poor "outchitel" was dead drunk. My father pulled him up by the collar of his coat, kicked him out of the room, and dismissed him the same day, to the ...
— The Daughter of the Commandant • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
... much accustomed to his regular visits, however, that we paid little attention to him, expecting that he would set down our meagre fare as usual and depart. But, to our surprise, instead of doing so, he advanced towards us with a knife in his hand, and going up to Jack, he cut the thongs that bound his wrists; then he did the same to Peterkin and me! For fully five minutes we stood in speechless amazement, with our freed hands hanging idly by our sides. ...
— The Coral Island • R.M. Ballantyne
... he listens to the tale of him whom his client oppresseth, and you shall win him just as easily. Let the question of gain put him in action, and the devil inside shall jump out, like an ape stirred up to malice. He affects, too, a vulgar frankness, which is often the mask of selfishness, as a man who helps himself first at table with a "ha! ha!" in a facetious manner, a jocose greediness, which is most actual, real ...
— Cromwell • Alfred B. Richards


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