up

Takođe pogledajte: UP, úp, -up, up-, U.P., i ir

Etymology

From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English

upp, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic

*upp, see more there.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ŭp, MFA^(ključ): /ʌp/, [ɐʔp]
• (US) enPR: ŭp, MFA^(ključ): /ʌp/, [ʌp̚]

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• (General Australian) MFA^(ključ): /ap/, [äp]

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• Rime: -ʌp

Adverb

1. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.

   I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.

2. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.

   I will mix up the puzzle pieces.

   Tear up the contract.

   He really messed up.

   Please type up our monthly report.

   Drink up. The pub is closing.

   Can you sum up your research?

   The comet burned up in the atmosphere.

   I need to sew up the hole in this shirt.

3. To or from one's possession or consideration.

   I picked up some milk on the way home.

   The committee will take up your request.

   She had to give up her driver's license after the accident.

4. North.

   I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend.

5. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.

   Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.

   Turn it up, I can barely hear it.

   Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question.

   Cheer up, the weekend's almost here.

6. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.

   I was up to my chin in water.

   A stranger came up and asked me for directions.

7. Aside, so as not to be in use.

   to lay up riches; put up your weapons

8. (rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
9. (sailing) Against the wind or current.
10. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
11. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.

    The bowler pitched the ball up.

12. (hospitality, US) Without additional ice.

    Would you like that drink up or on ice?

13. (UK, academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.

    She's going up to read Classics this September.

    • 1867, John Timbs, Lives of wits and humourists, page 125

      The son of the Dean of Lichfield was only three years older than Steele, who was a lad of only twelve, when at the age of fifteen, Addison went up to Oxford.

    • 1998, Rita McWilliams Tullberg, Women at Cambridge, page 112

      Others insinuated that women 'crowded up to Cambridge', not for the benefits of a higher education, but because of the proximity of 2,000 young men.

    • 2002, Peter Harman, Cambridge Scientific Minds, page 79

      A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge.

Synonyms

• (away from the centre of the Earth): alley oop (rare)

Antonyms

• (away from the centre of the Earth): down
• (louder): down
• (higher in pitch): down
• (towards the principal terminus): down

Derived terms

Terms derived from up (adverb)

• any road up
• backup
• bottom-up
• clean-up
• close-up
• double-up
• follow-up
• link-up
• lookup
• one-up
• one-upmanship
• pop-up
• runup
• start-up
• upon
• upper
• uppity
• upto
• upward
• upwards
• walkup

 

Related terms

Terms related to up (adverb)

• all it's cracked up to be
• back up
• blow up
• bottoms up
• break up
• buck up
• build up
• burn up
• clean up
• clear up
• clog up
• close up
• cloud up
• crack up
• cut up
• double up
• dress up
• dry up
• eat up
• finish up
• gang up
• gang up on
• go up
• kick up
• knock up
• lash up
• let up
• look up
• lookup
• muck up
• open up
• polish up
• runner up
• run up
• shake up
• shoot up
• show up
• shut up
• stir up
• stop up
• turn up
• up and at 'em
• up to
• up to it
• wet up
• work up
• write up

 

Translations

away from earth’s surface

• Afrikaans: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Albanian: lart
• Arabic: فَوْقَ‎ (ar) (fawqa), فَوْق‎ (ar) (fawq)

  Egyptian Arabic: فوق‎ (fōʾ)

• Aragonese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Armenian: վեր (hy) (ver)
• Aromanian: sus (roa-rup), nsus, nsusu
• Asturian: arriba
• Bashkir: өҫkә (öθkä), юғarы (yuğarï)
• Basque: gora (eu)
• Belarusian: (direction) navérh (navjérx), uvérh (uvjérx), ўverh (ŭvjerx); (location) navérse (navjérsje), uvérse (uvjérsje), ўvérse (ŭvjérsje)
• Bulgarian: nagóre (bg) (nagóre)
• Catalan: amunt (ca)
• Chamicuro: onojko
• Chichewa: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上 (zh) (shàng)

• Czech: nahoru (cs), vzhůru (cs) (movement), nahoře (cs) (location)
• Danish: opad
• Dutch: omhoog (nl), opwaarts (nl)
• Eshtehardi: بالا‎ (bâlâ)
• Esperanto: supren
• Faroese: upp
• Finnish: ylös (fi), ylöspäin (fi)
• French: en haut (fr)
• Friulian: sù
• Galician: arriba
• Georgian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• German: oben (de), nach oben, empor (de)
• Greek: πάνω (el) (páno)

  Ancient: ἄνω (ánō)

• Hebrew: מעלה‎ (he) (má'ala), למעלה‎ (lemá'ala)
• Hindi: ऊपर (hi) (ūpar)
• Hungarian: fel (hu)
• Icelandic: uppi (is)
• Irish: thuas (static position above), suas (upwards), in airde
• Italian: su (it)
• Japanese: 上に (ja) (うえに, ue ni)
• Khmer: ឡើង (km) (laəng)
• Korean: 위에 (ko) (wie) (where), 위로 (ko) (wiro) (where to)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Lao: ຂຶ້ນ (lo) (khưn)
• Latin: sursum
• Latvian: augšā
• Lithuanian: į viršų
• Luhya: engaki
• Luo: malo
• Macedonian: nagore (nagore)
• Malay: ke atas (ms)
• Manx: heose (static position above), neese (upwards towards speaker), seose (upwards away from speaker)
• Marathi: वर (var)
• Mirandese: arriba
• Navajo: dah, deigo
• Norwegian: opp (no)
• Occitan: amont (oc)
• Pashto: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Persian: بالا‎ (fa) (bâlâ), ابَر‎ (fa) (abar), بُرز‎ (fa) (borz), فراز‎ (fa) (farâz)
• Polish: do góry (pl), w górę (pl), na górze (where)
• Portuguese: (para) cima (pt), acima (pt)
• Romanian: sus (ro)
• Romansch: si (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan), sen, se (Sutsilvan, Surmiran), sü (Puter, Vallader)
• Russian: (where to) vvérh (ru) (vvérx), navérh (ru) (navérx); (where) vverhú (ru) (vverxú), naverhú (ru) (naverxú)
• Sanskrit: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Scottish Gaelic: suas, a-nìos (movement), shuas (location)
• Sicilian: nsusu (scn), n susu (scn)
• Sikkimese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Slovak: hore
• Slovene: gôr (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: górjejce

• Spanish: arriba (es)
• Swahili: juu (sw)
• Swedish: upp (sv), uppåt (sv)
• Telugu: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Thai: ขึ้น (th) (kʉ̂n)
• Tibetan: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Ukrainian: vgóru (uk) (vhóru), dogorí (dohorý), vgorі́ (uk) (vhorí) (where)
• Urdu: اوپر‎ (ūpar)
• Venetian: su (vec), so (vec), suxo
• Vietnamese: lên (vi)
• Volapük: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Welsh: i fyny, lan
• Yiddish: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete

completely, thoroughly

• Danish: itu (da), i stykker
• Dutch: ver- (nl)
• Finnish: palasiksi, osiin, murskaksi, pirstaleiksi
• German: ver- (de), er- (de)
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• Macedonian: is- (is-), iz- (iz-)
• Norwegian: opp (no)
• Russian: na části (na části), na kuskí (na kuskí)
• Swedish: isär (sv), itu (sv)

north

• Danish: op (da)
• Finnish: pohjoinen (fi)
• Japanese: 北に (ja) (kita ni)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Norwegian: opp (no)
• Swahili: juu (sw)

higher, louder

• Danish: op (da)
• Dutch: omhoog (nl)
• Finnish: ylemmäs
• Georgian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Japanese: 上に (ja) (うえに, ue ni)
• Korean: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Latvian: augstāk
• Macedonian: povisoko (povisoko) (higher), poglasno (poglasno) (louder)
• Norwegian: opp (no)
• Portuguese: aumentar (pt), elevar (pt)
• Russian: vы́še (ru) (výše), grómče (ru) (grómče)
• Slovak: hore
• Swahili: juu (sw)
• Swedish: upp (sv)

higher in pitch

• Danish: op (da)
• Dutch: omhoog (nl)
• Finnish: ylemmäs, korkeammaksi
• French: haut (fr)
• Macedonian: povisoko (povisoko)
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• Norwegian: opp (no)
• Portuguese: aumentar (pt), elevar (pt)
• Russian: vы́še (ru) (výše)
• Swahili: juu (sw)
• Swedish: upp (sv)

rail transport: the direction towards milepost zero

• Japanese: 上りに (nobori ni)
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cricket: relatively close to the batsman

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• Albanian: ^{(molim proverite)} lart
• Šablon:ttbc: فَوْق‎ (fawq)
• Esperanto: ^{(molim proverite)} supren
• Šablon:ttbc: ^{(please verify)} su (it), ^{(molim proverite)} in su
• Šablon:ttbc: ^{(molim proverite)} 위에 (wie), ^{(please verify)} 위로 (ko) (wiro)
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• Šablon:ttbc: ^{(please verify)} 向上 (zh) (xiàngshàng)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} (în) sus (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} uvis (sh)
• Spanish: ^{(molim proverite)} (hacia) arriba

Preposition

up

1. Toward the top of.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

   The cat went up the tree.   They walk up the steps.

2. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.

   The information made its way up the chain of command to the general.   I felt something crawling up my arm.

3. Further along (in any direction).

   Go up the street until you see the sign.

4. From south to north of
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.

5. From the mouth towards the source (of a river or waterway).
6. (vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.

   Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her.

7. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more remote from a central location).
   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, p. 94:

     “I'll tell you how I got on in the fight if I should see you up the Smokers.”

Antonyms

• (toward the top of): down

Related terms

• give up
• pick up
• put up
• ring up
• send up
• take up
• throw up
• up a creek
• up a tree
• up on one's ear
• up someone's alley

 

Translations

toward the top

• Arabic: لِأَعْلَى‎ (liʾaʿlā)
• Asturian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Catalan: dalt (ca)
• Danish: op (da) i (da)
• Dutch: op (nl), omhoog (nl)
• Faroese: upp eftir
• Finnish: ylös (fi)
• French: vers le haut, go up: monter (fr)
• Galician: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Georgian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• German: hinauf (de), hoch (de)
• Greek: πάνω (el) (páno)
• Hebrew: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Hindi: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Hungarian: -ra (hu)/-re (hu) fel (hu) (used simultaneously with the suffix)
• Irish: suas
• Japanese: 上に (ue ni)
• Khmer: ទៅខាងលើ (tɨv kʰaang lǝǝ)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: super (la), supra (la)
• Latvian: augšup
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• Malay: ke atas (ms), naik
• Maori: ake
• Mirandese: alhá riba
• Navajo: de, dei
• Norwegian: oppover (no)
• Occitan: sus (oc), subre (oc)
• Polish: w górę (pl), do góry (pl)
• Portuguese: alto (pt), no alto, para o alto
• Romanian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Russian: vvérh (ru) (vvérx), navérh (ru) (navérx)
• Scottish Gaelic: suas, a-nìos, a-nuas
• Sikkimese: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Slovak: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Slovene: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Spanish: hacia arriba
• Swahili: juu (sw)
• Swedish: uppåt (sv)
• Tamil: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Telugu: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Welsh: i fyny, lan
• Yiddish: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete

further along

• Danish: op ad
• Dutch: langs (nl)
• Finnish: pitkin (fi)
• German: weiter (de)
• Norwegian: oppover (no)
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• Portuguese: adiante (pt)
• Russian: dálьše (ru) (dálʹše)
• Scottish Gaelic: suas
• Swahili: mbali (sw)
• Swedish: längs (sv)

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Adjective

up (not comparable)

1. Awake.

   I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up.

2. Finished, to an end

   Time is up!

3. In a good mood.

   I’m feeling up today.

4. Willing; ready.

   If you are up for a trip, let’s go.

5. Next in a sequence.

   Smith is up to bat.

6. Happening; new.

   What is up with that project at headquarters?

7. Facing upwards; facing toward the top.

   Put the notebook face up on the table.

   Take a break and put your feet up.

8. Larger; greater in quantity.

   Sales are up from last quarter.

9. Ahead; leading; winning.

   The home team were up by two goals at half-time.

10. Standing.

    Get up and give her your seat.

11. On a higher level.

    The new ground is up.

    • 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie

      ‘The Phantom! The Phantom is up from the cellars again!’

12. Available; made public.

    The new notices are up as of last Tuesday.

13. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.

    AAKK = aces up

    QQ33 = queens up

14. Well-informed; current.

    I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on?

15. (computing) Functional; working.

    Is the server back up?

16. (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.

    The London train is on the up line.

17. Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
18. (bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.

    A Cosmopolitan is typically served up.

19. (slang) Erect. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
20. (of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time)
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

      I have said I was still in darkness, yet it was not the blackness of the last night; and looking up into the inside of the tomb above, I could see the faintest line of light at one corner, which showed the sun was up.

21. (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
    • 1996, Matthew Busby Hunt, The Sociolinguistics of Tagging and Chicano Gang Graffiti (page 71)

      Being "up" means having numerous graffiti in the tagging landscape.

    • 2009, Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (pages 16-40)

      Graffiti writers want their names seen by writers and others so that they will be famous. Therefore writers are very serious about any opportunity to “get up.” […] The throw-up became one of the fundamental techniques for getting up, and thereby gaining recognition and fame.

    • 2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti:

22. (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
    • 2003, Nicolas Barker, The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth:

Antonyms

• (facing upwards): down
• (on a higher level): down
• (computing: Functional): down
• (traveling towards a major terminus): down

Derived terms

• know which end is up
• up and running
• up for grabs
• upside
• upside down

 

Translations

awake

• Czech: vzhůru (cs)
• Danish: oppe
• Dutch: op (nl)
• Finnish: hereillä (fi), valveilla (fi)
• French: debout (fr), levé (fr)
• German: auf (de), munter (de)
• Hebrew: ער‎ (he) m ('er), ערה‎ f ('erá)
• Hungarian: fent (hu)
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• Japanese: 起きている (ja) (okite iru)
• Latvian: augšā
• Macedonian: razbuden (razbuden), rasonet (rasonet)
• Norwegian: oppe (no)
• Portuguese: acordado (pt)
• Swahili: amka
• Swedish: uppe (sv)

finished

• Dutch: op (nl)
• Finnish: loppu (fi)
• German: um (de), zu Ende, alle (de) (colloquial), beendet (de), aus (de)
• Japanese: 終わり (owari)
• Macedonian: istečen (istečen)
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• Malay: habis, tamat
• Norwegian: ute (no)
• Portuguese: acabado (pt)
• Spanish: terminado (es), acabado (es)
• Swahili: maliza

in a good mood

• Czech: nahoře (cs)
• Dutch: opgewekt (nl)
• Finnish: iloinen (fi)
• Japanese: 良い (ja) (yoi)
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• Malay: riang
• Norwegian: oppesen
• Portuguese: bem (pt)
• Swahili: tabamu

ready, willing

• Dutch: klaar (nl), bereid (nl)
• Finnish: use jaksaa for "be up (to)"
• French: partant (fr) m
• German: bereit (de)
• Japanese: 気が向いている (kiga-muite iru)
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• Norwegian: klar (no)
• Portuguese: pronto (pt)
• Spanish: listo (es)
• Swahili: kubali (sw)

next

• Dutch: aan (nl), aan de beurt
• Finnish: seuraavana
• German: dran (de)
• Japanese: 控えている (hikaete iru)
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• Norwegian: i tur
• Spanish: próximo (es)
• Swahili: ingine

facing upwards

• Danish: med forsiden opad
• Dutch: met (nl) ... omhoog (nl)
• Finnish: ylöspäin (fi)
• German: hoch (de)
• Japanese: 上を向けて (ue wo mukete)
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• Norwegian: med (no) ... opp (no)
• Portuguese: virado para cima
• Spanish: hacia arriba
• Swahili: juu (sw)
• Swedish: med (sv) ... uppåt (sv)

standing

• Dutch: op (nl)
• Finnish: seisomassa, seisomaan
• French: debout (fr)
• German: auf (de)
• Japanese: 上に (ueni)
• Macedonian: stanat (stanat)
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• Norwegian: opp (no)
• Portuguese: em pé (pt), de pé (pt)
• Spanish: en pie
• Swahili: simama
• Swedish: upp (sv)

on a higher level

• Finnish: ylempänä, korkeampana
• German: oben (de)
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• Norwegian: oppe (no)
• Swahili: juu (sw)

available

• Dutch: beschikbaar (nl)
• Finnish: saatavilla
• Norwegian: oppe (no)
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• Swahili: patikana
• Swedish: uppe (sv)

informed about

• Danish: med (da)
• Dutch: mee (nl)
• Finnish: ajan tasalla
• Japanese: 上がっている (agatte iru)
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• Norwegian: med (no) (colloquial), oppdatert
• Portuguese: a par (pt), por dentro (pt)
• Swahili: juu (sw)
• Swedish: med (sv) (colloquial), uppdaterad (sv)

functional

• Danish: oppe
• Dutch: in orde (nl), functioneel (nl)
• Finnish: ylhäällä (fi), toiminnassa
• French: en marche (fr) m or f
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• German: in Betrieb (de), an (de)
• Norwegian: oppe (no)
• Spanish: en marcha
• Swahili: juu (sw)

rail transport: traveling towards a major terminus

• Japanese: 上り方向に (nobori-hōkō ni)
• Norwegian: utgående (no)
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• Swahili: juu (sw)

erect

• Dutch: stijf (nl)
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• French: au garde-à-vous m or f

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Noun

up (usually uncountable, plural ups)

1. (uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.

   Up is a good way to go.

2. (countable) A positive thing.

   I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.

3. An upstairs room of a two story house.

   She lives in a two-up two-down.

Usage notes

• Up is not commonly used as object of a preposition.

Antonyms

• (direction opposed to the pull of gravity): down

Derived terms

• mark-up

Related terms

• ups and downs

Translations

direction opposed to the pull of gravity

• Dutch: omhoog (nl)
• Esperanto: supren
• Finnish: ylös (fi) (adverb)
• French: haut (fr) m
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• Japanese: 上 (ja) (ue)
• Korean: 위 (ko) (wi)
• Macedonian: nagore (nagore)
• Swahili: juu (sw)

Verb

1. (transitive, colloquial) To increase or raise.

   If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details.

   We upped anchor and sailed away.

   • 2008, Randy Wayne White, Black Widow, strana 181:

   • 2011 decembar 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

2. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.

   It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.

   • 1940, Jessica Mitford, Peter Y. Sussman, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford, published 2010, strana 64:

   • 2003, Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon, strana 136:

   • 2005, Larry Brody, Turning Points in Television, strana 70:

3. (intransitive) To act suddenly, usually with another verb.

   He just upped and quit.

   He upped and punched that guy.

   • 1991, Michael Jackson, Who Is It

     And she didn't leave a letter, she just upped and ran away.

4. (intransitive) To ascend; to climb up.
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, page 10

     "Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me?".

5. (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.

   100 new apps and games have just been upped.

Synonyms

• (increase): turn up

Derived terms

terms derived from up (verb)

• up and
• up and go
• up and leave

• up the ante
• up the game

Translations

increase

• Czech: zvýšit (cs)
• Danish: forøge
• Dutch: omhoogdraaien, verhogen (nl), opschroeven (nl)
• Finnish: nostaa (fi), kasvattaa (fi)
• German: aufdrehen (de), erhöhen (de)
• Japanese: 上げる (ja) (ageru)
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• Macedonian: zgolemuva (zgolemuva), povišuva (povišuva)
• Malay: menaikkan, meningkatkan
• Norwegian: høyne, øke (no)
• Scottish Gaelic: èirich
• Swahili: juu (sw)
• Swedish: höja (sv)

promote

• Czech: povýšit
• Danish: forfremme
• Dutch: promoveren (nl)
• Finnish: nostaa (fi)
• Japanese: 上げる (ja) (ageru)
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• Macedonian: unapreduva (unapreduva)
• Norwegian: forfremme
• Scottish Gaelic: èirich, àrdaich
• Swahili: juu (sw)

to act suddenly — see up and

References

• Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

Anagrams

• P U, PU ^{(alphagram pu)}

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Middle Dutch

Preposition

up

1. Alternative form of op

Adverb

1. Alternative form of op

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Old English

Alternative forms

• upp

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *upp, akin to Old High German ūf, Old Norse upp.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /up/

Adverb

1. up

Descendants

• Middle English: up
  • Engleski: up

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *upp.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /uːp/

Adverb

1. up

Preposition

1. upon