Meaning

19 senses
  1. Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.

    (not comparable)Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.

    I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.

    Shoots grow up and roots grow down.

    nach oben, empor

    вве́рхvvérx, наве́рхnavérx, вверху́vverxú

    вго́руvhóru, догори́dohorý, вгорі́vhorí

  2. (not comparable)To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.

    All day we climbed up and up.

    Lift the carpet up and look underneath.

    spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position

  3. (not comparable)To an upright or erect position.

    sit up; stand up; get up out of bed

  4. (figuratively, not comparable)To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.

    Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.

    Turn it up, I can barely hear it.

    вы́шеvýše

  5. Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as “up”.

    (not comparable)To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.

    Go back up to the top of the page.

    As I lay on my back, a pain shot up from my toes to my chest.

  6. (not comparable)To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).

    I live in Florida, but I'm going up to New York to visit my family this weekend.

  7. (not comparable)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.

    We travelled from Yorkshire up to London.

    I'm going up to the other end of town.

  8. (not comparable)Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.

  9. (UK, dated, not comparable)To university, especially to Cambridge or Oxford.

    She's going up to read Classics this September.

  10. (not comparable)Against the wind or current.

  11. (not comparable)Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.

    We started in London and rowed all the way up to Oxford.

  12. (not comparable)In a positive vertical direction.

Examples

34129 sentences
  1. You must not give up hope.

    Не треба втрачати надію. — deniko

    ruВы не должны терять надежду. — shanghainese

    deDu darfst die Hoffnung nicht aufgeben. — Vortarulo

  2. What time do you get up?

    О котрій годині ти встаєш? — deniko

    ruВо сколько ты встаёшь? — Tonari

    deUm wie viel Uhr stehst du auf? — MUIRIEL

  3. Turn the radio up a little.

    Зроби радіо трохи гучніше. — deniko

    ruСделай радио чуть громче. — al_ex_an_der

    deMach das Radio ein bisschen lauter. — kolonjano

  4. Mary stayed up late last night.

    Вчора Мері не лягала спати допізна. — ChickenKiev

    ruМэри поздно легла спать вчера. — Gruzilkin

    deMary ist gestern Abend lange aufgeblieben. — Esperantostern

  5. Why don't you give up smoking?

    Чому б тобі не кинути палити? — deniko

    ruПочему ты не бросишь курить? — sharptoothed

    deWarum hörst du nicht mit dem Rauchen auf? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
away from earth’s surface:
Русский
By meaning 3
higher, louder:
away from earth’s surface:
completely, thoroughly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
away from earth’s surface:
completely, thoroughly:

Origin

From Middle English up, op, oup, from Old English upp, up, ūp (“up”), from Proto-West Germ

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”).

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