up

/ap/ · noun

Meaning

The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
A positive thing.
An upstairs room of a two story house.
To increase or raise.
To promote.
(usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly.
To ascend; to climb up.
To upload.
Facing upwards.
On or at a physically higher level.
Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
Aloft.
Raised; lifted.
Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
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.
(intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
To or from one's possession or consideration.
Toward the top of.
Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
From south to north of.
Further along (in any direction).
From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
Of a man: having sex with.

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