LekhoriLekhoriIndicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
Go back up to the top of the page.
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.
I was up to my chin in water.
Toward the top of.
The cat climbed up the tree.
Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general.
Facing upwards.
Turn the cloth over so that the patterned side is up.
On or at a physically higher level.
The flood waters are up again across large areas of the country.
The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
Up is a good way to go.
A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.
To physically raise or lift.
We upped anchor and sailed away.
To increase the level or amount of.
If we up the volume, we may be able to hear what he says.
Initialism of Upper Peninsula.
Initialism of United Presbyterian.
Initialism of Uttar Pradesh: a state of India.
To study old photographs from UP villages like the one where Ram Dass lived is to be reminded of how rural history writes upon the body.
From Middle English up, op, oup, from Old English upp, up, ūp (“up”), from Proto-West Germanic *upp, *ūp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, *eup (“up”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ap (“up”), West Frisian ...
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From south to north of.
We sailed up the East Coast of England from Ipswich to South Shields.
Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
Where is the up escalator?
Initialism of unqualified prospect.
To promote.
It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.