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TO RUN UP

Definition: TO RUN UP

TO RUN UP

1. To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast. But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. --Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO RUN UP

English words defined with "TO RUN UP": Uprun. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO RUN UP": WALKING UP AGAINST THE WALL. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO RUN UP": Origin. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO RUN UP

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Screenplays

I've been trying to run up your credit card bill to earn you enough Fly-Buys to get you a free mystery flight for your honeymoon. (Kath & Kim; writing credit: Gina Riley; Jane Turner)

You're trying to run up a bunch of no-contest convictions to make your record look good. (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: John Sayles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO RUN UP

Language Translations for "TO RUN UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

loebe i froe (to go to seed, to run to seed), gaa i froe (to go to seed, to run to seed). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zaadschieten (to go to seed, to run to seed). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tehdä siementä (to go to seed, to run to seed). (various references)

   

French

  

monter en graine (to go to seed, to run to seed). (various references)

   

German

  

in Samen schießen (to go to seed, to run to seed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φυλλοφυώ (to go to seed, to run to seed), αναπτύσσω φύλλα (to go to seed, to run to seed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

termel (bore, borne, to bear, to churn out, to crop, to generate, to rear), sebtiben összeüt, sebtiben összeállít, nekifut (to make the run), gyorsan felépít (to throw up), felvon (cat, hoist, to haul up, to hoist, to hoist up, to pull up), felver (beat up, hunt out, rouse, to alarm, to flush, to put up, to restart, to rouse, to whip, wake up), felszalad, felszökik (shoot up, sprang, sprung, to flush, to spout, to spring), felnyurgul, felhúz (draw on, hoist in, pull up, to draw up, to haul up, to hoist, to hoist up, to prime, to pull on, to pull up, to screw up, to whip, to wind up, uplift, weigh up, wind up), felfut (run up, to come up into the wind). (various references)

   

Italian

  

germogliare (bud, burgeon, germinate, offset, shoot, sprout), germinare (germinate), andare in seme (to go to seed, to run to seed). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

駆け上る . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かけあがる. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay unray upay

   

Swedish

  

gå i frö (seed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO RUN UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "n-o-p-r-t-u-u"

-1 letter: outrun, runout, turnup, uptorn, upturn.

-2 letters: punto, puton.

-3 letters: porn, port, pour, pout, punt, roup, rout, runt, torn, tour, trop, turn, unto, upon.

-4 letters: nor, not, nut, opt, ort, our, out, pot, pro, pun, pur, put, rot, run, rut, ton, top, tor, tun, tup, upo, urn.

-5 letters: no, nu, on, op, or, to, un, up.

 Words containing the letters "n-o-p-r-t-u-u"
 

+2 letters: uncorrupt, upcountry.

 

+3 letters: outpouring, punctuator, usurpation.

 

+4 letters: countercoup, outpourings, outtrumping, punctuators, suppuration, unsupported, usurpations.

 

+5 letters: countercoups, counterpunch, neuropterous, outproducing, percutaneous, seropurulent, superconduct, suppurations, transpicuous, unpopularity, unproductive, unpropitious.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO RUN UP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      52 55 4E      55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449252554825550

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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