Gold has goneup with the uncertainty in the world markets.
Turn itup, I can barely hear it.
Listen to your voice goup at the end of a question.
Cheerup, the weekend's almost here.
Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
Go backup to the top of the page.
As I lay on my back, a pain shotup from my toes to my chest.
To thenorth (as north is at the top of typical maps).
I live in Florida, but I'm goingup to New York to visit my family this weekend.
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.
1867, John Timbs,Lives of wits and humourists, page125:
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 wentup to Oxford.
1998, Rita McWilliams Tullberg,Women at Cambridge, page112:
Others insinuated that women 'crowdedup 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, page79:
A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he wentup to Cambridge.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruiseup the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
The information made its wayup the chain of command to the general.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Turn the cloth over so that the patterned side isup.
1983, Gary E. Meek, Stephen J. Turner,Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions, page41:
Suppose that we roll a fair die and flip a fair coin in a game that awards 10 dollars whenever one pip shows on theup face of the die and 2 dollars whenever a head shows on theup side of the coin.
For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:up.
On or at a physically higher level.
The flood waters areup again across large areas of the country.
The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin, Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: The Commons nowe arevp in Kent, let vs not ſuffer this firſt attempt too farre.
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 wasup.
2002,Philip Pullman, “Dreaming of Spires”, inDaemon Voices, Vintage, published2017, page98:
When I wasup (1965–68) I had a group of idle friends who occupied their time and mine betting on horses, getting drunk and sprawling about telling creepy tales.
1996, Matthew Busby Hunt,The Sociolinguistics of Tagging and Chicano Gang Graffiti, page71:
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, pages16–40:
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 “getup.”[…] The throw-up became one of the fundamental techniques for gettingup, and thereby gaining recognition and fame.
2011, Adam Melnyk,Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti:
From his great rooftop pieces, selected for high visibility, to his sneaky tags and fun loving stickers, he most certainly knows how to getup.
2003, Nicolas Barker,The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth:
Won by Park Top (Lester Piggottup), at Epsom on June 5, 1969
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Part of the woman's mystique, I guess. Makes people want to meet her all the more. A year ago, sheupped her stock with that crowd when she bought the Midnight Star — among the world's most famous star sapphires
2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, inBBC Sport[2]:
After a dreadful performance in the opening 45 minutes, theyupped their game after the break and might have taken at least a point from the match.
2023 November 29, “Network News: European services 'stifled by subsidies', says ALLRAIL”, inRAIL, number997, page21:
It says that while European countriesupped their subsidies by 6% between 2018-20, the growth in business was only 0.45%.
But the swagman heup and jumped into the waterhole, Drowning himself by the coolibah tree. And his ghost may be heard as it sings by the billabong, 'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'
Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", inThe Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
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, published1867,page86
![[6]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rogerclarke.com%2fWM%2fManuscript.gif){kind=link}