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Definition: TO RUN UP |
TO RUN UP1. 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. |
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) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| 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 gå i frö (seed). (various references) | ||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      52 55 4E      55 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01010101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   R U N   U P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      0055 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449252554825550 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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