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Definition: Up And Down |
Up And DownAdverb1. Moving backward and forward along a given course; "he walked up and down the locker room"; "all up and down the Eastern seaboard". 2. Alternately upward and downward; "he eyed him up and down". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
Adverb: to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well. | |
Journey | Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate. |
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Screenplays | I used to ride my pony up and down this corridor when I was young, then I grew up, got drunk, and fell off (The Great Race; writing credit: Arthur A. Ross) I've been sending up and down the coast from Sarasota to the Everglades and still getting back the same dead air. There's nothing (Day of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero) Not up and down, not side to side, but in a circular motion (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; writing credit: Hisao Ohkawa; Kaoru Umeno) I don't like these people driving their boats up and down this part of the river here (Interceptor; writing credit: Jacques Antoine; Malcolm B. Heyworth) Well when I ask a girl out I look her up and down and say, how you doing (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Movin' up and down, dancin' on the ground (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) And up and down (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Up and down the puppies' hair (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) You and me, up and down (Escape; performing artist: Enrique Iglesias) I get the chills up and down my spine (Play; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) | |
Clever | You're trailer trash when the bluebook value of your truck goes up and down, depending on how much gas is in it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Up and Down (1966) | |
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 | Looking upstream at the original culvert. The culvert was approximately 36" in diameter. Before placement of the new culvert there was an 18" tidal height differential between the up and down stream sides of the marsh. This restriction reduced available fish habitat and allowed non-native plant species to invade the marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Plowing up and down hills was a time-honored plowing method that lead to high erosion rates on farmland. Today, conservation-minded farmers farm on the contour to help reduce ersoion of topsoil. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Soybean field farmed up and down hill with severe soil erosion, central Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | A farmer uses a horse-drawn moldboard plow to till up and down the slopes on this farm. Credit: Unknown. |
 | A sharecropper's son going up and down the long rows worming tobacco. Wake county, NC. July 1939. . Credit: USDA. |  | [Four children (full length portrait) climbing up and down the stairs of an airplane] Esther Bubley. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | It will do -- if nobody begins jumping up and down on it. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Autumn pastimes. Virgil has been walking up and down the block past her house for an hour in ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Run up and down an electric piano. |
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Emo Philips | I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks. |
Heraclitus | The path up and down is one and the same. |
William Shakespeare | Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But as families increased, and industry inlarged their stocks, their possessions inlarged with the need of them; but yet it was commonly without any fixed property in the ground they made use of, till they incorporated, settled themselves together, and built cities; and then, by consent, they came in time, to set out the bounds of their distinct territories, and agree on limits between them and their neighbours; and by laws within themselves, settled the properties of those of the same society: for we see, that in that part of the world which was first inhabited, and therefore like to be best peopled, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks, and their herds, which was their substance, freely up and down; and this Abraham did, in a country where he was a stranger. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He was not reading now, but walking up and down despairingly |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | While the procession passed, the child was uneasy, fluttering up and down, like a bird on the point of taking flight |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The child, which was a little girl, was running up and down to keep herself warm, singing and laughing in a loud voice |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He wandered up and down the dark slimy streets peering into the gloom of lanes and doorways, listening eagerly for any sound |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He blinked and looked up and down. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In a little time I observed the noise of flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign post on a windy day. |
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Health | This may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, flicking up and down of the eyes, drooling, loss of balance, and dizziness. (references) | |
They have brain involvement that can be extensive leading to inability to look up and down, difficulty in walking and swallowing, as well as progressive loss of vision and hearing. (references) | ||
Constipation can make a bowel movement painful, so the child may try to prevent having one. Clenching buttocks, rocking up and down on toes, and turning red in the face are signs of trying to hold in a bowel movement. (references) | ||
Business | The reason for this statistical anomaly was a decrease in the movement of goods by ship up and down the coast and river ways, as more cargo was carried on recently upgraded truck and rail systems. (references) | |
Economic History | Egypt | Soybean oil goes up and down based on competitive prices for palm oil and availability of local cottonseed oil. (references) |
Chad | With the exception of Libya, where relations go up and down, Chad has generally good rapport with its neighbors. (references) | |
Venezuela | Venezuela now faces the challenge of maintaining economic growth through the up and down cycles of the global oil market. (references) | |
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Bob Barker | We want high-energy contestants, not necessarily. We want people who are in a good mood. They can be funny and fun quietly. They don't have to jump up and down and scream. If that comes natural for them, do it. |
Gene Wilder | Pompea! She was his wife, and she was unfaithful to him. So he got mad and he jumped on her, up and down, up and down, until he squashed her like a bug! Please don't jump on me! |
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Expressions using "up and down": be up and down ♦ bob up and down ♦ hunt up and down ♦ jumping up and down ♦ look smb. up and down ♦ look up and down ♦ pace up and down ♦ pace up and down the room ♦ parade up and down ♦ slip up and down ♦ To beat up and down ♦ up and down clause ♦ up and down method ♦ up and down working. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "up and down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që lëvizet poshtë-e-lart, poshtë-e-lart, ngjitës-zbritës, me kodra. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който върви ту нагоре ту надолу, който върви насам-натам, отвесен (abrupt, normal, perpendicular, precipitatious, sheer, upright, vertical). (various references) | |
Chinese | 上下 (old and new, top and bottom). (various references) | |
Czech | nahoru a dolù. (various references) | |
Danish | paa boreplatforme paa havet fik fartoejets saetning boreroeret til at glide op og ned gennem sikkerhedsventilerne,medens oensket om ved boringer paa land under tryk at foere borestammen ned i og op af borehullet gav samme problemer (on offshore rigs, the heave of the vessel moved the pipe up and down through the preventers, while for onshore operations the desire to strip pipe in and out of the well under pressure presented the same problems). (various references) | |
Dutch | op en neer bewegen (move up and down), bij offshore-boorinstallaties werd de pijp als gevolg van de deining in de afsluiters op en neer bewogen;bij werkzaamheden aan land deden zich dezelfde problemen voor bij het onder druk in-en uitbouwen van boorpijp (on offshore rigs, the heave of the vessel moved the pipe up and down through the preventers, while for onshore operations the desire to strip pipe in and out of the well under pressure presented the same problems), bij een pompinstallatie voor kunstmatige beweegt het balanssegment op en neer waardoor een heen-en-weergaande beweging op de gepolijste stang wordt overgebracht;de gepolijste stang is weer verbonden met een serie pompstangen,en onderaan deze serie bevindt (and at the bottom of the sucker rod is the bottom-hole pump, in a pumping unit used for artificial lift, the horsehead moves up and down imparting a reciprocating motion to the polish(ed)rod;the polished rod in turn is connected to a string of sucker rods). (various references) | |
Finnish | sinne tänne (here and there, hither and thither). (various references) | |
French | va-et-vient, qui monte et descend, ascendant et descendant. (various references) | |
German | auf und ab (back and forth, ebb and flow, heave, reciprocation, seesaw, to and fro, undulation). (various references) | |
Greek | σε μία μονάδα αντλήσεως,που χρησιμοποιείται για την τεχνητή ανύψωση του ρευστού,η κεφαλή του αλόγου ανεβαίνει και κατεβαίνει μεταδίδοντας (and at the bottom of the sucker rod is the bottom-hole pump, in a pumping unit used for artificial lift, the horsehead moves up and down imparting a reciprocating motion to the polish(ed)rod;the polished rod in turn is connected to a string of sucker rods). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felülrõl lefelé. (various references) | |
Indonesian | golak-galik (to and for). (various references) | |
Italian | su e giù. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 上下 (an old ceremonial garb, going up and down, high and low, praising and blaming, samurai garb, the government and the people, the upper and the lower parts of the body, unloading and loading). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うえした (high and low, praising and blaming, unloading and loading), じょう' (high and low, praising and blaming, unloading and loading). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | upay anday ownday.(various references) | |
Romanian | de colo-colo, în sus şi în jos. (various references) | |
Russian | прямой (candid, direct, downright, erect, face-to-face, first hand, first-level, flat, forthright, free-spoken, lank, outright, outspoken, peer-to-peer, plain, plain dealer, straight, straight out, straightaway, straighted, straightforward, straight-out, upright), прямо (avowedly, bang, direct, directly, endlong, endways, endwise, erect, foursquare, head-on, in plain English, just, on the level, outright, plainly, plump, point blank, slap, spang, squarely, straight, straight from the shoulder, straight out, straightly, uprightly), перпендикулярный (normal, perpendicular), двигающийся вверх и вниз, 2>>. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji ide gore-dole. (various references) | |
Spanish | vertical (erect, perpendicular, Plumb, sheer, upright, vertical), variable (changeable, changeful, unsettled, variable, varying, wayward), poco uniforme, perpendicular (orthographical, perpendicular, upright, vertical), con altibajos, accidentado (broken, chequered, hilly, jerky, ragged, troubled, uneven). (various references) | |
Swedish | av och an (to and fro). (various references) | |
Turkish | yukarı aşağı, yükselip alçalan, inişli çıkışlı (bumpy, chequered, remittent, rugged, seesaw, surging, surgy, undulant, uneven, with ups and downs). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | усюди (everywhere), угору і вниз, що руха"ться угору і вниз, туди й назад (here and there, hither and thither, seesaw, to and again, to and back, to and fro), горбкуватий (bosselated, hilly, tuberous), побіжний огляд (once-over), перпендикулярний (normal, perpendicular, vertical). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sursum deorsum. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai enupniasqh kai idou klimax esthrigmenh en th gh hV h kefalh afikneito eiV ton ouranon kai oi aggeloi tou qeou anebainon kai katebainon ep' authV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Viditque in somnis scalam stantem super terram et cacumen illius tangens caelum angelos quoque Dei ascendentes et descendentes per eam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he sawy in his slepis a laddre stondynge vpon the erthe, and the heiyt of it towchynge heuene, and aungels forsothe of God steiynge vp and goynge down bi it, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he dreamed: and beholde there stode a ladder apon the erth and the topp of it reached vpp to heaue. And se the angells of God went vp and downe apon it |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Ug nagdamgo siya; ug ania karon, may usa ka hagdan nga nagatindog sa yuta, ug ang iyang tumoy miabut sa langit; ug ania karon, ang mga manolonda sa Dios, nga nagasaka ug nagakanaug niini. |
| Chinese | 夢 見 一 個 梯 子 立 在 地 上 、 梯 子 的 著 天 、 有 神 的 使 者 在 梯 子 上 、 上 去 下 來 。 |
| Croatian | I usne san: ljestve stoje na zemlji, a vrhom do neba dopiru, i anðeli Božji po njima se penju i silaze. |
| Danish | Da drømte han, og se, på Jorden stod en Stige, hvis Top nåede til Himmelen, og se, Guds Engle steg op og ned ad den; |
| Dutch | En hij droomde; en ziet, een ladder was gesteld op de aarde, welker opperste aan den hemel raakte; en ziet, de engelen Gods klommen daarbij op en neder. |
| Finnish | Niin hän näki unta, ja katso, maan päälle oli asetettu tikapuut, joiden pää ulottui taivaaseen, ja katso, Jumalan enkelit kulkivat niitä myöten ylös ja alas. |
| French | Il eut un songe. Et voici, une échelle était appuyée sur la terre, et son sommet touchait au ciel. Et voici, les anges de Dieu montaient et descendaient par cette échelle. |
| German | Und ihm träumte; und siehe, eine Leiter stand auf der Erde, die rührte mit der Spitze an den Himmel, und siehe, die Engel Gottes stiegen daran auf und nieder; |
| Haitian Creole | Li fè yon rèv. Li reve li wè yon nechèl ki te kanpe de pye l' atè ak tèt li pèdi nan syèl la. Zanj Bondye yo t'ap moute desann sou nechèl la. |
| Hungarian | És álmot láta: Ímé egy lajtorja vala a földön felállítva, melynek teteje az eget éri vala, és ímé az Istennek Angyalai fel- és alájárnak vala azon. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian bermimpilah ia bahwa ia melihat sebuah tangga yang berdiri di bumi dan ujungnya mencapai langit dan malaikat-malaikat turun naik di tangga itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka bermimpilah ia, bahwa sesungguhnya adalah suatu tangga terdiri di atas bumi, dan kepala tangga itupun sampai ke langit; heran, maka beberapa malaekat Allah pun naik turun tangga itu. |
| Italian | Fece un sogno: una scala poggiava sulla terra, mentre la sua cima raggiungeva il cielo; ed ecco gli angeli di Dio salivano e scendevano su di essa. |
| Maori | Na moe iho ia, ko tetahi arawhata e tu ana i runga i te whenua, ko tona pito i tutuki ki te rangi: na, ko nga anahera a te Atua e piki ana, e heke ana i runga i taua mea. |
| Norwegian | Da drømte han og så en stige som var stilt op på jorden, og hvis topp nådde til himmelen, og se, Guds engler steg op og steg ned på den. |
| Portuguese | Então sonhou: estava posta sobre a terra uma escada, cujo topo chegava ao céu; e eis que os anjos de Deus subiam e desciam por ela; |
| Rumanian | Wi a visat o scarq rezematq de pqmknt, al cqrei vkrf ajungea pknq la cer. Kngerii lui Dumnezeu se suiau wi se pogorau pe scara aceea. |
| Swedish | Då hade han en dröm. Han såg en stege vara rest på jorden, och dess övre ände räckte upp till himmelen, och Guds änglar stego upp och ned på den. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-n-n-o-p-u-w" | |
-3 letters: adnoun. | |
-4 letters: adown, donna, pound, unwon, wound. | |
-5 letters: anon, apod, dado, dawn, dona, dopa, down, duad, nona, noun, pawn, pond, puna, undo, updo, upon, wand, woad. | |
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