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getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"

spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"

to a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation"

to a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume"

open; "the windows are up"

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"

extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"

(usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game"

used up; "time is up"

(used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"

getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"

spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"

to a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation"

to a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume"

open; "the windows are up"

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"

extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"

(usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game"

used up; "time is up"

(used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"

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.

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.

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.

Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.

From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.

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.

Upon.

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

Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; - the opposite of down.

The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; - rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs.

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.

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.

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.

Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.

From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.

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.

Upon.

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

Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; - the opposite of down.

The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; - rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs.

To a higher place on; as, toward the source of; as, up the river.

Higher in motion, direction, or position: into being or action; as, to start up an argument; into notice; completely or to a finished state; as, to bring up a child; not behind or worse than: with to or with; as, to keep up with the times; away or in safety.

Leading to a higher place; finished; as, the time is up.

Fortunate occurrences: used only in the expression ups and downs.

Toward a higher place: a loft: on high: from a lower to a higher position, as out of bed, above the horizon, etc.: in a higher position: in a condition of elevation, advance, excitement, etc.: as far as: completely. from a lower to a higher place on or along. -Used substantively, as in the ups and downs of life.

Aloft; on high; to a higher position; in a high or higher position; as far as; completely.

From a lower to a higher place; on or along.

Moving or sloping upward.

That which is up; chiefly in the phrase ups and downs.

Toward a higher place or level.

In or on a higher place.

In or to an upright position; risen from bed.

So as to be level (to) or even (with) in space, degree, etc.

Aroused; astir.

In or into promienence.

At an end or close.

From a lower to a higher point or place.

At, on, or near a higner place or part of.

adv. [Anglo Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic] Aloft; on high ; toward a higher place ; in a higher position; above;-hence, from a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively—used with verbs of motion; —in a higher place or position—used with verbs of rest, situation, and the like;—to or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, less than, away from, or the like—usually followed by to or with; —completely; wholly; quite.

n. The state of being un or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, and the like.