Move Up

Definition: Move Up

Move Up

Verb

1. Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows".

2. Be promoted, move to a better position.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Move Up

Evolution

Fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down; AdVerb: pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate; teeter.

Crosswords: Move Up

I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, get some sheep and tend to them (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

Gonna move up to the borderline. (Union of the Snake; performing artist: Duran Duran)

When you move up closer to me (Can't You Hear My Heartbeat; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

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

Books

• Rogers' Rules for Businesswomen: How to Start a Career and Move Up the Ladder (reference)

• The Best Way in the World for a Woman to Make Money: The Founder of Careers for Women Tells How to Get in and Move Up Through Executive Sales (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Move up Time (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Move up, move up, Bill Bryan! --. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Business

Among Chinese men, cancer, heart trouble, and respiratory disease will move up in the disease burden scale from 5th, 3rd, and 4th to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. (references)

Memory storage capacities of HDDs for PCs have increased sharply from 2GB-6GB in mid-1999 to 8GB/20GB in 2000. Storage capacities of HDDs exceeded 1GB levels in 1996. It took about nine years for HDDs to move up in storage capacity from the 10MB to the 100MB capacity, 5 years to move up from the 100MB to the 1GB capacity, but only 3 years to move up from the 1GB to the 10GB capacity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "move up": move up a class ♦ move up front. Additional references.

Albanian

ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صعد للطبقة العليا (move up a class). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отдръпвам се (back away, dodge, ease off, ebb, flow back, move away, pull over, quail, recoil, retire, shrink away, shrink back, stand aside, stand off, step aside), придвижвам се към фронта, покачвам се (get up, jump up), издигам се (advance, arise, arose, ascend, aspire, flow, go up, jump, loft, peak, push up, rise, rise in the world, shoot up, tower, uprise). (various references)

Dutch

op en neer bewegen (move up and down). (various references)

Finnish

siirtää luokalta. (various references)

French

monter et descendre (move up and down), passer dans la classe supérieure (move up a class), faire monter (Mount, move up a class). (various references)

German

aufrücken (be promoted, go up, move along, to move up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעלות כת�" (move up a class). (various references)

Hungarian

felköltözik. (various references)

Indonesian

mengingsut (move up slowly, shift). (various references)

Italian

rimontare (catch up, date back, go back, go up, reassemble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

繰り上がる (to move up), 繰り上�'る (to advance, to move up), 上の級に進む (to move up to a higher grade). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くりあがる (to move up), くりあ�'る (to advance, to move up), うえのきゅうにすすむ (to move up to a higher grade). (various references)

Pig Latin

ovemay upay.(various references)

Russian 

придвинуть (draw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

unaprediti (advance, further, promote), napredovati (advance, get along, get on, move on, progress, prosper, push on, thrive), ići na front. (various references)

Spanish

subir (advance, arise, ascend, bump up, carry up, climb, come up, get into, get up, go up, lift, raise, rise, step up, take up, upload, walk up), hacer sitio, desplazar hacia arriba, arrimar (abut, bring close, bring nearer). (various references)

Swedish

stiga (advance, ascend, climb, flow, get, grow, increase, rise, soar, step, tread), gå fram (come over, pass along). (various references)

Turkish

yukarı çıkmak (ascend, climb up), terfi etmek (get one's promotion, rise, work one's way up). (various references)

Ukrainian

підсунутися, просунути. (various references)

admovebat, admovens, admovere, admoveri, admovissent, admovit, appellant, appellaris, appellatur, appelleris. (various references)

Misspellings

"Move Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: move uo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: meou, mope, moue, move, ovum, poem, pome.

-3 letters: emu, mop, ope, pom, ump, upo, voe.

-4 letters: em, me, mo, mu, oe, om, op, pe, um, up.

+2 letters: overpump.

+3 letters: overpumps, overtrump.

+4 letters: compulsive, impervious, overpumped, overtrumps, unimproved.

+5 letters: compulsives, consumptive, overpumping, overtrumped.