Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word UP

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Definitions of UP

1. 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.
2. Facing upwards.
3. On or at a physically higher level.
4. Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
5. Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
6. Aloft.
7. Raised; lifted.
8. Built, constructed.
9. Standing; upright.
10. Awake and out of bed.
11. Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
12. Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
13. Ahead; leading; winning.
14. In a good mood.
15. Next in a sequence.
16. Well-informed; current.
17. An upstairs room of a two story house.
18. Toward the top of.
19. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
20. From south to north of.
21. Further along (in any direction).
22. From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
23. Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
24. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
25. (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
26. (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
27. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
28. (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
29. (obsolete) Risen up, rebelling, in revolt.
30. (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
31. (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
32. (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
33. (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
34. (computing) Functional; working.
35. (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
36. (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice.
37. (slang) Erect.
38. (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
39. (uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
40. (countable) A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
41. (particle physics) An up quark.
42. (transitive, poeticor in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
43. (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
44. (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
45. (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
46. (intransitive, archaic or poetic) To ascend; to climb up.
47. (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
48. Initialism of Upper Peninsula.
49. (religion) Initialism of United Presbyterian.
50. (software) Initialism of Unified Process.
51. (Philippines) Initialism of University of the Philippines.
52. Initialism of unqualified prospect.
53. Initialism of university press.
54. Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
55. Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
56. To one's possession or consideration.
57. From one's possession or consideration.
58. (vulgarslang) Of a person: having sex with.
59. (predicativeonly) Finished, to an end
60. (predicativeonly) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
61. (UK, dated) At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
62. A @init of:Uttar Pradesh state in India.

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Examples of Using UP in a Sentence

• It eats insects and their larvae, mainly termites; one aardwolf can lap up as many as 300,000 termites during a single night using its long, sticky tongue.
• The Aberdeenshire Council area includes all of the areas of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire except the area making up Aberdeen City Council area, as well as part of Banffshire.
• The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta.
• Born in Congleton, Garner grew up in Alderley Edge, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as "The Edge", where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region.
• In this model, the electron cloud of an atom may be seen as being built up (in approximation) in an electron configuration that is a product of simpler hydrogen-like atomic orbitals.
• Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan group of more than 50 species which make up the genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths.
• The number of living species is disputed, with some authorities accepting up to ten species, while others accept six or fewer.
• After the death of his father in 1541, Allori was brought up and trained in art by the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, a close friend of the family.
• Ambrosians are members of one of the religious brotherhoods which at various times since the 14th century have sprung up in and around Milan, Italy.
• He belonged to the ancient Eupatrid family of the Kerykes, who traced their lineage up to Odysseus and the god Hermes.
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748 under the title Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding until a 1757 edition came up with the now-familiar name.
• Alleles can differ at a single position through single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), but they can also have insertions and deletions of up to several thousand base pairs.
• The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.
• Aeon can also refer to the four aeons on the geologic time scale that make up the Earth's history, the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and the current aeon, Phanerozoic.
• When threatened by a predator, Tolypeutes species frequently roll up into a ball; they are the only species of armadillo capable of this.
• The country is made up of various ethnic groups, of which Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks are the largest.
• 1559 – The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
• After Miller's prophecies failed, the Millerite movement split up and was continued by a number of groups that held different doctrines from one another.
• Acantharians are heterotrophic marine microplankton that range in size from about 200 microns in diameter up to several millimeters.
• Created to compete with Mattel's Intellivision, the 5200 wound up a direct competitor of ColecoVision shortly after its release.

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