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up

/ʌp

adverb

1Towards a higher place or position: he jumped up two of the men hoisted her up the curtain went up...

Tell us what it is like to be up on that podium with that crowd just going wild and cheering for you?
She put the phone back up to her ear.
It was a really fantastic feeling to be up on the podium.

1.1Upstairs: she made her way up to bed...

She had fallen asleep in the chair after supper and had gone straight up to bed at midnight.
He came over to say, ‘I'm going up now. Room 205’.
Do you want to come up to my room and watch TV?

1.2(Of the sun) visible after daybreak: the sun was already up when they set off...

At 5:30 it's light, and by 6 the sun is up and making the forest glow.
Once the sun came up the civilians brought tea out for the soldiers and gave them water.
The sun was up and the sky was clear.

1.3Expressing movement towards or position in the north: he’s driving up to Inverness to see the old man...

They went up north for the day, to Duluth, probably to see Lake Superior.
On Friday, Jimmy and I are driving up to Yorkshire to attend a wedding.
I was supposed to be up on the East coast somewhere, probably getting over the gig in Whakatane last night.

1.4To or at a place perceived as higher: I’m going for a walk up to the shops...

I went past the station taxi rank yesterday and I couldn't get near it so I went up to town and it was the same story.
You're supposed to be up at the house fixing my phone.
We strolled up to Argyll Street and had lunch at Garfunkels.

1.5 [as exclamation] Used as a command to a soldier or an animal to stand up and be ready to move or attack: up, boys, and at 'em...

Let's go, up and at 'em.
All up! Ship out in ten!

1.6(Of food that has been eaten) regurgitated from the stomach: I was ill and vomited up everything...

The cat just sicked up some grass on the cream carpet.
Patients are unable to control bowel and bladder functions, and some bring up their meal right in the middle of feeding.
He threw up behind a mimosa tree in the woods back of Patty's.

2At or to a higher level of intensity, volume, or activity: she turned the volume up liven up the graphics US environmental groups had been stepping up their attack on GATT...

Man, something must really be in the air lately, because the hate mail is up considerably at my job too.
Turn the lights down and the sound up.
To start with, the level of demand goes up unpredictably.

2.1At or to a higher price, value, or rank: sales are up 22.8 per cent at $50.2 m unemployment is up...

The 2005 RAC Report on Motoring, launched today, reveals the number breaking the limit is up almost 10 per cent on a year ago.
Company cars are set to be taxed differently from April 2002 but the tax trend is up.
Revenue may be up on short-haul flights for the first time in a long time, but BA knows it can never transform itself into a low-frills carrier.

2.2Winning or at an advantage by a specified margin: United were 3-1 up at half time we came away £300 up on the evening...

Louth got back on top and four unanswered points put them two up with ten minutes to go.
At 14% the party is up a massive nine points since 1999 and looks like winning seats on all four Dublin councils.
It's now one of the top 20 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange and its share price has gone up by over 70%.

3To the place where someone is: Dot didn’t hear Mrs Parvis come creeping up behind her...

He was talking with his client outside the courtroom when a witness rushed up and attacked his client.
He was on his own at a table eating when two guys went up to him.
A moment later Nikki and Sandra drove up in a van, followed by Pete in his car.

4Towards or in the capital or a major city: give me a ring when you’re up in London...

Tomorrow I'm up in London again for a planning meeting.
The girls will go up to Brisbane every Sunday to do classes and prepare for a performance.

4.1British At or to a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge: they were up at Cambridge about the same time...

‘Were you up at Oxford yourself?’ inquires a voice so precise it could only be an Oxford don's.
I'd had one year up at Cambridge and then volunteered for the Army.
He went up to Cambridge University at 14, where he followed the standard undergraduate course of the day.

5Into the desired or a proper condition: the government agreed to set up a committee of inquiry...

The scheduled repairs are essential and it will take 14 days of intensive work to get it up to the required standard.
It's going to take at least a year, though, to get it up and going.
He said a few years ago the residents repaired the road and got it up to standard.

5.1So as to be finished or closed: I’ve got a bit of paperwork to finish up he zipped up the holdall...

I think we can probably wrap this up before we go to lunch because I have just a few questions.
There are just a couple of things we want to finish up.
They are actually going on holiday tomorrow night and would like if possible to get it signed up before they go.

6Into a happy mood: I don’t think anything’s going to cheer me up...

Daniel has cheered up since last week and is feeling confident about next season.
Lester actually brightened up at the idea.

7Out of bed: Miranda hardly ever got up for breakfast...

I don't think I'd ever known Lee to be up before eleven at the earliest and it was only half nine.
After dinner, we went to bed so we could be up on time the next morning.
Tony Hawk also thought it was way too early to be up on a Sunday morning.

8Displayed on a noticeboard or other publicly visible site: sticking up posters to advertise concerts...

Hopefully a copy of it should be up on the show's site when it goes live, so I'll listen in if I can.
Posters were put up around college.
Yorkshire fans are advised to buy their tickets in advance because the ‘sold out’ signs are likely to be up on the day.

9(Of sailing) against the current or the wind: the bow of the boat was brought slowly up into the wind and held there...

Back in the cockpit he decided it was time to tack, but found the yacht would not point up into the wind.
Because he brought the sail up into the wind, the wind caught it and flipped it straight back onto the other side, and down on top of him.

9.1(Of a ship’s helm) moved round to windward so that the rudder is to leeward.We saw a square-rigged vessel in full sail close to us, so close that we had to strike sail to avoid running foul of her, while they too put the helm hard up to let us pass.

10 Baseball At bat: every time up, he had a different stance...

They got a man in scoring position with two out and Buddy Kerr up.
In the ninth, I was scheduled to be the fourth man up.

preposition

1From a lower to a higher point of (something): she climbed up a flight of steps...

We picked our way up one side of the ridge, and I found a spot where we could spend the long night ahead.
Calleri is one of several Argentines moving steadily up the rankings.
She shrieked with laughter as they raced up the stairs.

1.1To a higher part of (a river or stream), away from the sea: a cruise up the Rhine...

Last summer I made a trip up the Amazon basin in Peru.
In 1866 the U.S.S. General Sherman sailed up the Taedong River to Pyongyang.
We think it is a realistic proposition to bring a crossing between Kent and Southend, and eventually up the Thames to London.

2Along or further along (a street or road): he lived up the road walking up the street...

I lived just up the street from them.
He was returning from visiting his mother further up Silchester Road when the evacuation began and was unable to get back to his home.
He's done one job for Redwood City, and one for Emeryville that's just a few blocks up Park Avenue from his office.

3 informal At or to (a place): we’re going up the Palais...

Fancy going up the shops?
Then we went up the pub and stayed there until midnight.

adjective

1 [attributive] Directed or moving towards a higher place or position: the up escalator...

You can press the up and down arrows repeatedly to cycle through the commands that you've already typed in.
I slipped one of the attendants a tip, then I headed for the up escalator and the station.
It gets kind of clumsy when the path leads down the screen and you have the press the up key but that's a relatively minor quibble.

1.1Relating to or denoting trains travelling towards the major point on a route: the first up train...

To my right passes an up train surprisingly full: the workers of Croydon speeding to Clapham Junction.
A means of access to the up platform of the station from the Worcester road would be a boon to many.

2 [predicative] At an end: his contract was up in three weeks time’s up...

The mobile providers expect you to stay loyal even after your contract is up, so they make their money back in the long run.
But he has been an MLA for almost five years, and he has yet to have done something for his constituents - perhaps a constituency meeting before his term is up.
I've got a court order here and it says your time is up.

3 [predicative] (Of a road) being repaired.As you know the road is up for repairs.

4 [predicative] (Of a computer system) functioning properly: the system is now up...

My usually reliable comment system is moving to a different host and should be up by the weekend.
After the system is up, we use Smaart Live to look for minor problems.
You might as well say that the publishing industry will fail now that the internet is up, and I don't really see that happening anytime soon.

5 [predicative] In a cheerful mood; ebullient: the mood here is resolutely up...

You know the geek mood is up when attendees stop talking about making rent this month, and resume predicting the date of the Singularity.
I'm really up and excited.
There were a few revelers, but really, the mood is up right now.

6(Of a jockey) in the saddle.

7 Physics Denoting a flavour of quark having a charge of + 2/3. Protons and neutrons are thought to be composed of combinations of up and down quarks.In the weak interaction of radioactivity it has been known for many years that the neutrino turns into an electron or that an up quark transmutes into a down.

noun informal

A period of good fortune: you can’t have ups all the time in football...

The club has had more downs than ups over the years but that indomitable spirit that it is renowned for has lived proudly on.
Don't you ever think, Tammy Faye, that your life, while it has had a lot of ups, has been a series of heartbreaks?
The Bluth family, the center of this half-hour show, has had a lot of ups, but now the downs have arrived, bigtime.

verb (ups, upping, upped)

1 [no object] (up and do something) informal Do something unexpectedly: she upped and left him...

Cutting, trimming, finishing, pressing: it was taxing work, though not for the bosses who upped and relocated their operations to other sites nearby in order to escape the clutches of the VAT man.
Suddenly they upped and moved, telling neighbours that they were emigrating to the US.
Then we upped and left, diverting to avoid a heath fire.

2 [with object] Increase (a level or amount): capacity will be upped by 70 per cent next year...

I think it's time to go back to the doctors and get the meds changed / upped.
My big achievement for the day was talking to my new account exec at iPowerWeb and getting my storage space upped to 3gb.
The offer - since shamefacedly upped to $35 million - equates to what?

3 [with object] Lift (something) up: everybody was cheering and upping their glasses...

She ups her stick and begins to belabour him across the shoulders.

3.1 [no object] (up with) West Indian & US informal Raise or pick up (something): this woman ups with a stone...

There was another lady that came in a hurry, and would stop if we were not more than a minute; so Jim ups with a specimen, without looking at it, and it was the picture of a woman and her child.
Every time anybody showed himself, Earl upped with that rifle and levelled down.

Phrases

be (well) up on (or in)

it is all up with

on the up and up

something is up

up against

up and about

up and doing

up and down

up and running

up the ante

up before

up for

up hill and down dale

up one's street (or alley)

up sticks

up there Cazaly!

up to

up top

up with ——

up yours

what's up?

Origin

Old English up(p), uppe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch op and German auf.

单词	up
释义	up /ʌp / adverb 1Towards a higher place or position: he jumped up two of the men hoisted her up the curtain went up... Tell us what it is like to be up on that podium with that crowd just going wild and cheering for you? She put the phone back up to her ear. It was a really fantastic feeling to be up on the podium. 1.1Upstairs: she made her way up to bed... She had fallen asleep in the chair after supper and had gone straight up to bed at midnight. He came over to say, ‘I'm going up now. Room 205’. Do you want to come up to my room and watch TV? 1.2(Of the sun) visible after daybreak: the sun was already up when they set off... At 5:30 it's light, and by 6 the sun is up and making the forest glow. Once the sun came up the civilians brought tea out for the soldiers and gave them water. The sun was up and the sky was clear. 1.3Expressing movement towards or position in the north: he’s driving up to Inverness to see the old man... They went up north for the day, to Duluth, probably to see Lake Superior. On Friday, Jimmy and I are driving up to Yorkshire to attend a wedding. I was supposed to be up on the East coast somewhere, probably getting over the gig in Whakatane last night. 1.4To or at a place perceived as higher: I’m going for a walk up to the shops... I went past the station taxi rank yesterday and I couldn't get near it so I went up to town and it was the same story. You're supposed to be up at the house fixing my phone. We strolled up to Argyll Street and had lunch at Garfunkels. 1.5 [as exclamation] Used as a command to a soldier or an animal to stand up and be ready to move or attack: up, boys, and at 'em... Let's go, up and at 'em. All up! Ship out in ten! 1.6(Of food that has been eaten) regurgitated from the stomach: I was ill and vomited up everything... The cat just sicked up some grass on the cream carpet. Patients are unable to control bowel and bladder functions, and some bring up their meal right in the middle of feeding. He threw up behind a mimosa tree in the woods back of Patty's. 2At or to a higher level of intensity, volume, or activity: she turned the volume up liven up the graphics US environmental groups had been stepping up their attack on GATT... Man, something must really be in the air lately, because the hate mail is up considerably at my job too. Turn the lights down and the sound up. To start with, the level of demand goes up unpredictably. 2.1At or to a higher price, value, or rank: sales are up 22.8 per cent at $50.2 m unemployment is up... The 2005 RAC Report on Motoring, launched today, reveals the number breaking the limit is up almost 10 per cent on a year ago. Company cars are set to be taxed differently from April 2002 but the tax trend is up. Revenue may be up on short-haul flights for the first time in a long time, but BA knows it can never transform itself into a low-frills carrier. 2.2Winning or at an advantage by a specified margin: United were 3-1 up at half time we came away £300 up on the evening... Louth got back on top and four unanswered points put them two up with ten minutes to go. At 14% the party is up a massive nine points since 1999 and looks like winning seats on all four Dublin councils. It's now one of the top 20 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange and its share price has gone up by over 70%. 3To the place where someone is: Dot didn’t hear Mrs Parvis come creeping up behind her... He was talking with his client outside the courtroom when a witness rushed up and attacked his client. He was on his own at a table eating when two guys went up to him. A moment later Nikki and Sandra drove up in a van, followed by Pete in his car. 4Towards or in the capital or a major city: give me a ring when you’re up in London... Tomorrow I'm up in London again for a planning meeting. The girls will go up to Brisbane every Sunday to do classes and prepare for a performance. 4.1British At or to a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge: they were up at Cambridge about the same time... ‘Were you up at Oxford yourself?’ inquires a voice so precise it could only be an Oxford don's. I'd had one year up at Cambridge and then volunteered for the Army. He went up to Cambridge University at 14, where he followed the standard undergraduate course of the day. 5Into the desired or a proper condition: the government agreed to set up a committee of inquiry... The scheduled repairs are essential and it will take 14 days of intensive work to get it up to the required standard. It's going to take at least a year, though, to get it up and going. He said a few years ago the residents repaired the road and got it up to standard. 5.1So as to be finished or closed: I’ve got a bit of paperwork to finish up he zipped up the holdall... I think we can probably wrap this up before we go to lunch because I have just a few questions. There are just a couple of things we want to finish up. They are actually going on holiday tomorrow night and would like if possible to get it signed up before they go. 6Into a happy mood: I don’t think anything’s going to cheer me up... Daniel has cheered up since last week and is feeling confident about next season. Lester actually brightened up at the idea. 7Out of bed: Miranda hardly ever got up for breakfast... I don't think I'd ever known Lee to be up before eleven at the earliest and it was only half nine. After dinner, we went to bed so we could be up on time the next morning. Tony Hawk also thought it was way too early to be up on a Sunday morning. 8Displayed on a noticeboard or other publicly visible site: sticking up posters to advertise concerts... Hopefully a copy of it should be up on the show's site when it goes live, so I'll listen in if I can. Posters were put up around college. Yorkshire fans are advised to buy their tickets in advance because the ‘sold out’ signs are likely to be up on the day. 9(Of sailing) against the current or the wind: the bow of the boat was brought slowly up into the wind and held there... Back in the cockpit he decided it was time to tack, but found the yacht would not point up into the wind. Because he brought the sail up into the wind, the wind caught it and flipped it straight back onto the other side, and down on top of him. 9.1(Of a ship’s helm) moved round to windward so that the rudder is to leeward.We saw a square-rigged vessel in full sail close to us, so close that we had to strike sail to avoid running foul of her, while they too put the helm hard up to let us pass. 10 Baseball At bat: every time up, he had a different stance... They got a man in scoring position with two out and Buddy Kerr up. In the ninth, I was scheduled to be the fourth man up. preposition 1From a lower to a higher point of (something): she climbed up a flight of steps... We picked our way up one side of the ridge, and I found a spot where we could spend the long night ahead. Calleri is one of several Argentines moving steadily up the rankings. She shrieked with laughter as they raced up the stairs. 1.1To a higher part of (a river or stream), away from the sea: a cruise up the Rhine... Last summer I made a trip up the Amazon basin in Peru. In 1866 the U.S.S. General Sherman sailed up the Taedong River to Pyongyang. We think it is a realistic proposition to bring a crossing between Kent and Southend, and eventually up the Thames to London. 2Along or further along (a street or road): he lived up the road walking up the street... I lived just up the street from them. He was returning from visiting his mother further up Silchester Road when the evacuation began and was unable to get back to his home. He's done one job for Redwood City, and one for Emeryville that's just a few blocks up Park Avenue from his office. 3 informal At or to (a place): we’re going up the Palais... Fancy going up the shops? Then we went up the pub and stayed there until midnight. adjective 1 [attributive] Directed or moving towards a higher place or position: the up escalator... You can press the up and down arrows repeatedly to cycle through the commands that you've already typed in. I slipped one of the attendants a tip, then I headed for the up escalator and the station. It gets kind of clumsy when the path leads down the screen and you have the press the up key but that's a relatively minor quibble. 1.1Relating to or denoting trains travelling towards the major point on a route: the first up train... To my right passes an up train surprisingly full: the workers of Croydon speeding to Clapham Junction. A means of access to the up platform of the station from the Worcester road would be a boon to many. 2 [predicative] At an end: his contract was up in three weeks time’s up... The mobile providers expect you to stay loyal even after your contract is up, so they make their money back in the long run. But he has been an MLA for almost five years, and he has yet to have done something for his constituents - perhaps a constituency meeting before his term is up. I've got a court order here and it says your time is up. 3 [predicative] (Of a road) being repaired.As you know the road is up for repairs. 4 [predicative] (Of a computer system) functioning properly: the system is now up... My usually reliable comment system is moving to a different host and should be up by the weekend. After the system is up, we use Smaart Live to look for minor problems. You might as well say that the publishing industry will fail now that the internet is up, and I don't really see that happening anytime soon. 5 [predicative] In a cheerful mood; ebullient: the mood here is resolutely up... You know the geek mood is up when attendees stop talking about making rent this month, and resume predicting the date of the Singularity. I'm really up and excited. There were a few revelers, but really, the mood is up right now. 6(Of a jockey) in the saddle. 7 Physics Denoting a flavour of quark having a charge of + 2/3. Protons and neutrons are thought to be composed of combinations of up and down quarks.In the weak interaction of radioactivity it has been known for many years that the neutrino turns into an electron or that an up quark transmutes into a down. noun informal A period of good fortune: you can’t have ups all the time in football... The club has had more downs than ups over the years but that indomitable spirit that it is renowned for has lived proudly on. Don't you ever think, Tammy Faye, that your life, while it has had a lot of ups, has been a series of heartbreaks? The Bluth family, the center of this half-hour show, has had a lot of ups, but now the downs have arrived, bigtime. verb (ups, upping, upped) 1 [no object] (up and do something) informal Do something unexpectedly: she upped and left him... Cutting, trimming, finishing, pressing: it was taxing work, though not for the bosses who upped and relocated their operations to other sites nearby in order to escape the clutches of the VAT man. Suddenly they upped and moved, telling neighbours that they were emigrating to the US. Then we upped and left, diverting to avoid a heath fire. 2 [with object] Increase (a level or amount): capacity will be upped by 70 per cent next year... I think it's time to go back to the doctors and get the meds changed / upped. My big achievement for the day was talking to my new account exec at iPowerWeb and getting my storage space upped to 3gb. The offer - since shamefacedly upped to $35 million - equates to what? 3 [with object] Lift (something) up: everybody was cheering and upping their glasses... She ups her stick and begins to belabour him across the shoulders. 3.1 [no object] (up with) West Indian & US informal Raise or pick up (something): this woman ups with a stone... There was another lady that came in a hurry, and would stop if we were not more than a minute; so Jim ups with a specimen, without looking at it, and it was the picture of a woman and her child. Every time anybody showed himself, Earl upped with that rifle and levelled down. Phrases be (well) up on (or in) it is all up with on the up and up something is up up against up and about up and doing up and down up and running up the ante up before up for up hill and down dale up one's street (or alley) up sticks up there Cazaly! up to up top up with —— up yours what's up? Origin Old English up(p), uppe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch op and German auf. Rhymes cup, grown-up, pup, scup, straight-up, stuck-up, summing-up, sup, totting-up, two-up, washing-up
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