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English

Etymology

From Middle English up, from Old English upp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, see more there.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ŭp, IPA(key): /ʌp/, [ɐʔp]
    • (Northern England) IPA(key): [ʊp]
  • (US) enPR: ŭp, IPA(key): /ʌp/, [ʌp̚]
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ap/, [äp]
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ʌp/
    • (Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): [ʌp], [ʊp]
  • Rhymes: -ʌp

Adverb

up (not comparable)

  1. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
  2. To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
    All day we climbed up and 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!’
  3. To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
  4. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
  5. 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.
  6. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
  7. To or from one's possession or consideration.
  8. To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
  9. Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
  10. (rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
  11. Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
    to lay up riches; put up your weapons
  12. (sailing) Against the wind or current.
  13. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
  14. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
  15. (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
  16. (UK, academia, dated) To university, especially to Cambridge or Oxford.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Preposition

up

  1. Toward the top of.
  2. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
  3. From south to north of.
  4. Further along (in any direction).
  5. From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
  6. (vulgar slang) Of a person: having sex with.
  7. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “toward the top of”): down

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

up (not comparable)

  1. Facing upwards.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:up.
  2. On or at a physically higher level.
  3. Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
  4. Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
  5. (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
  6. Aloft.
  7. Raised; lifted.
  8. Built, constructed.
  9. Standing; upright.
  10. (obsolete) Risen up, rebelling, in revolt.
  11. Awake and out of bed.
  12. (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
  13. (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
  14. Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
  15. Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
  16. Ahead; leading; winning.
  18. (predicative only) Finished, to an end
  19. In a good mood.
  20. (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
  21. Next in a sequence.
  23. (predicative only) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
  24. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
    AAKK = aces up
    QQ33 = queens up
  25. Well-informed; current.
  26. (computing) Functional; working.
  27. (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
  28. (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice.
  29. (slang) Erect. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  30. (UK) At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
  31. (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “facing upwards”): down
  • (antonym(s) of “on a higher level”): down
  • (antonym(s) of “computing: functional”): down
  • (antonym(s) of “traveling towards a major terminus”): down

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

up (countable and uncountable, plural ups)

  1. (uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
  2. (countable) A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
  3. (particle physics) An up quark.
    Hypernym: flavor
  4. An upstairs room of a two story house.

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “direction opposed to the pull of gravity”): down

Derived terms

  • mark-up
  • on the up-and-up

Related terms

  • ups and downs

Translations

Verb

up (third-person singular simple present ups, present participle upping, simple past and past participle upped)

  1. (transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
  4. (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
  5. (intransitive, archaic or poetic) To ascend; to climb up.
  6. (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.

Derived terms

Translations

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

  • Pu, pu., P.U., P U, P. U., PU

Chinese

Etymology 1

From clipping of English update.

Pronunciation

Verb

up

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to update

See also

  • update (ap1 dei1)

Etymology 2

From clipping of English upload.

Pronunciation

Noun

up

  1. Short for up主 (àpu-zhǔ).

Verb

up

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to upload

See also

  • upload (ap1 lou1)

Etymology 3

From English up.

Noun

up

  1. above
    三十up  ―  sānshí up  ―  above thirty (years old)

Etymology 4

Irregular romanisation of 噏 (ngap1).

Verb

up

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 噏 (ngap1)
Derived terms

Middle Dutch

Preposition

up

  1. Alternative form of op

Adverb

up

  1. Alternative form of op

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • upp, ap

Etymology

From Old English upp, from Proto-Germanic *upp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /up/

Adverb

up

  1. to a vertical axis

Descendants

  • English: up
  • Scots: up
  • Yola: ap, up

References

  • “up, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Mokilese

Noun

up

  1. sheet

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

  • ub, ob

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *upp

Adverb

ūp

  1. up, upwards

References

  • Altniederfränkischer Psalm 1

Old English

Alternative forms

  • upp

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /up/

Adverb

up

  1. up
    • "Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 19, verse 4
  2. upwards
    • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' Metres of Boethius, lines 85-89

Descendants

  • Middle English: up
    • English: up

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *upp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uːp/

Adverb

ūp

  1. up

Preposition

ūp

  1. upon

Yola

Adverb

up

  1. Alternative form of ap

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86

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