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Definition: Up |
UpAdjective1. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up". 2. Out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning". 3. Getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy". 4. Extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish". 5. (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game". 6. Open; "the windows are up". 7. (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?". 8. Used up; "time is up". Adverb1. Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile". 2. To a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume". 3. Nearer to the speaker; "he walked up and grabbed my lapels". 4. To a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation". 5. To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward". Verb1. Raise; "up the ante". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | Up adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up." Oppose down. 2. `bring up': vt. To create a working version and start it. "They brought up a down system." 3. `come up' vi. To become ready for production use. Source: Jargon File. |
Chemical Industry | A polymer in which the structural units are linked by ester groupings obtained by condensation of one or more polyhydric alcohols. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Up The House is up. The business of the day is ended, and the members may rise up from their seats and go home. A.B. is up. A.B. is on his legs, in for a speech. "Up, Guards, and at them!" Creasy, in his Fifteen Decisive Battles, states that the Duke of Wellington gave this order in the final charge at the battle of Waterloo. It has been utterly denied by recent writers, but it is the fashion to deny or discredit all cherished traditions. I, for one, wish the tradition were true, because, like Nelson's mot at Trafalgar, it gives a memorable interest to the charge; but alas! we are informed that it was not the Guards, but the 52nd light infantry which broke the column of the French Imperial Guard in the final charge, and "honour to whom honour is due." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military | In artillery and naval gunfire support: 1. A term used in a call for fire to indicate that the target is higher in altitude than the point which has been used as a reference point for the target location. 2. A correction used by an observer or a spotter in time fire to indicate that an increase in height of burst is desired. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: From team sports. When taking turns, the term "you're up" is used. Definition: A term used in the system of deciding which designer helps which customerteh system rotates thru th e six designers and when it's their turn to help a customer, it's their up. Context: General. Col. Social Source: Interior Designers at Ethan Allen. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Up describes the positive z-value in a gravitational field, just as "down" represents the negative z-value. The z-axis is the only axis that is not apparently arbitrary. The x and y values, "North", "South", "East", and "West" do in fact exist (and are named relative to the direction of the Earth's spin) but are not readily apparent.A computer or machine is said to be up when it's working properly, and down when it isn't.
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UP may refer to:
See also: up
- The Union Pacific Railroad
- The Upper Peninsula of Michigan
- The Polish political party Unia Pracy
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In complexity theory, UP ("Unambiguous Non-deterministic Polynomial-time") is the set of decision problems solvable in polynomial time on a non-deterministic Turing machine where there exists exactly one accepting path if the string is accepted. This is a Subset (though not necessarily proper) of NP and a Superset (though not necessarily proper) of P.A language L belongs to UP if there exists a two input polynomial time algorithm A and a constant c such that
Algorithm A verifies L in polynomial time.
- L = {x in {0,1}* | ∃! certificate, y with |y| = O(xc) such that A(x,y) = 1}
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "UP (complexity)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
UP | English | Unsaturated polyester | Chemical Industry, Meteorology & Standards |
UP | French | Polyester non saturé | Chemical Industry, Meteorology & Standards |
UP | German | Abteilung Unternehmungsentwicklung und-planung | Public Administration, Transportation |
UP | Italian | Unione Politica | European Union |
UP | Portuguese | União Política | European Union |
UP | Spanish | Unión Política | European Union |
| GET UP | English | Global Electronic Trade UN Partnership | N/A |
| UPD | English | Up to date | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: UpSynonyms: astir(p) (adj), improving (adj), up(a) (adj), up(p) (adj), upward (adj), upward(a) (adj), upwardly (adj), upwards (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: down (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Adjective: bubbling. Verb: frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, up. |
Completeness | Complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up; Verb: |
Excitation | Stung to the quick, up, on one;s high ropes. |
Height | Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high. |
River | Stanch; dam, up. (close); obstruct . |
Sexuality | Hot, horny, randy, rutting; passionate, lusty, hot-blooded, libidinous; up, in the mood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Up |
| Non-English Usage: "Up" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (Political Union), Swedish (inform). |
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Screenplays | Honey, I watched you the whole time, and you didn't screw up once (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Hush up! (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) Does this proposition entail my dressing up as Little Bo Peep (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman) You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) So it was, when I'd given up the search for vampires, that a vampire found me. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) | |
Lyrics | I'm so caught up in you (Caught Up in You; performing artist: 38 Special) That the world was made up of this (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes) Just go back and hit 'em up style (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell) We can do it till we both wake up (I Wanna Sex You Up; performing artist: Color Me Badd) Up in HERE, up in here (Party Up; performing artist: DMX) | |
Clever | Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (references; author: Mark Twain) I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. (references; author: Groucho Marx) Hang up and drive. (references; author: unknown) Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge (references; author: unknown) If it is to be, it is up to me! (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | A leaky rear latch on the listing bark lifted right up and the water rushed in. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | On the Come Up at the Source Awards (2001) Bottoms Up (1974) Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1974) Double Up (1974) Never Give Up (1974) | |
Song Titles | Pick Up Sticks (performing artist: The Dave Brubeck Quartet) May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose (performing artist: Little Jimmy Dickens) Wrapped Up In You (performing artist: Garth Brooks) WAKE UP EVERYBODY (performing artist: HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES) Stick Up (performing artist: Honey Cone) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The image shows a close-up of a patient's body prior to radiation treatment. A lighted scale is projected onto the body to exactly line up the treatment with the tumor site. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Adult white woman is performing breast self-examination (BSE) in the shower. Her left arm is raised and she is examining her left breast. She is nude from the waist up and the photo includes her head (with a shower cap) to her waist area. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Illustration showing fuzzy mold colony (left lower) made up of branching filaments called hyphae (left upper); smooth yeast colony (right lower) made up of ovoid cells (right upper). Credit: CDC. |  | B. anthracis Colony Characteristics: A. Consistency sticky (tenacious). When teased with loop, colony will stand up like beaten egg white. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Surreal Sphere to Sphere" by Lennart Agborn. Use the Scrollbar to vary A. The graph initially comes up blank; you must vary A to see it. |  | "Bell Curve" (movie) by Jerry Thornhill. Use the up arrow key to see inside. |
 | Technician Setting up RCA Television Camera. Credit: NASA. |  | Fireworks of Star Formation Light Up a Galaxy. Credit: NASA. |
 | Hold the pickles; hold the lettuce. Space is serving up giant hamburgers. NASA's Hubble Space ... Credit: NASA. |  | Teaming up space telescopes to make simultaneous ultraviolet and X-ray observations, ... Credit: NASA. |
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| "Doubled up inside" by Ozgur Atmaca Commentary: "Doubled up inside take awhile to shed my grief, doubled up inside taunted, cruel.. + tripod Used + full view suggested + title inspired by portishead + model : me Cam : Sony DSC-P9 Edit : PS 7.0 ." | "Rise up" by Keith Corcoran Commentary: "Clibing out of the trenches every morning is no easy task. so i sit the camera on the handrail and snap away. this one looks decent. www.k eithcorcoran.com ." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Double-time bass and accompanying melody with slow chimes up high. | | Slap bass setting up a groove for a chordal guitar solo. |
| A person punching in numbers and ringing up totals on an adding machine. | | Starting up hot rod. |
| Starting up jigsaw and cutting wood. | | Church organ starting up. |
| Helicopter starting up. | | Starting up a motorcycle. |
| Winding up a toy. | | Slide whistle down and up. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. |
Heraclitus | The path up and down is one and the same. |
Marquis De Vauvenargues | Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. |
Shirley Conran | You're never too old to grow up. |
Sophocles | It made our hair stand up in panic fear. |
St. Augustine | Take up, read! Take up, read! |
Stephen William Hawking | It matters if you just don't give up. |
Will Rogers | Never let yesterday use up too much of today. |
William Shakespeare | The game is up. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will immediately give up the son of Llywelyn and all the hostages of Wales, and the charters delivered to us as security for the peace. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | And indeed it was a foolish thing, as well as dishonest, to hoard up more than he could make use of. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Regulations and Tariffs drawn up by the International Telegraphic Conference, Lisbon, June 11, 1908. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Courts and magistrates may be set up but they cannot function without sheriffs and constables. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1906) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I am only afraid of your sitting up for me. |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Suddenly she brightened up. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Look, said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Thou mayest cover up thy secret from the prying multitude |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Not to go any further back, the king, very wisely, desired to build up a navy |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He turned into the pillared hall, now calmly lit, went up the staircase and passed in through the clicking turnstile |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Up with the tent |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | We measured it and broke it up. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | His Excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Up to 2% in epidemics. (references) | |
When sitting, get up slowly. (references) | ||
Sealants can last up to 10 years. (references) | ||
Business | Telkom is gearing up to take on competition. (references) | |
This reduces link costs to up to 30 percent. (references) | ||
Some changes are happening from the ground up. (references) | ||
Children | Djibouti | Girls made up only 36 percent of all secondary students. (references) |
China | Children put up for foreign adoption are almost exclusively girls. (references) | |
Indonesia | Almost 50 percent of children grow up in unhealthy or unsafe environments. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | They were released after being held for up to 1 month. (references) |
Indonesia | Police broke up several peaceful demonstrations in Papua. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Police occasionally have broken up meetings of unregistered groups. (references) | |
Discrimination | Brazil | A state law approved in Rio de Janeiro in May prohibits discrimination against carriers of AIDS by schools, stores, and clubs, with fines for violators up to $18,500 (50,000 reais). (references) |
Bhutan | Bhutanese human rights groups active outside the country claim that ethnic Nepalese actually make up approximately 35 percent of the country's population and that the Government underreports their number. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Growth picked up in 1997 to 6.3%. (references) |
Human Rights | Hungary | Suspects may be held in PSD for up to 24 hours. (references) |
Kuwait | Some detainees have been held for up to 6 months. (references) | |
Colombia | The children had been serving in the FARC for up to 3 years. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | Aboriginals make up approximately 2.8 percent of the population. (references) |
Colombia | The U'wa reserve measures 1.25 million acres and has estimated oil reserves of up to 1 billion barrels. (references) | |
Panama | Laws protect intellectual property rights of indigenous artwork and set up regulations for artisan fairs. (references) | |
Minorities | Tajikistan | Ethnic Uzbeks make up approximately a quarter of the population. (references) |
Russia | The multiethnic population is made up of more than 100 national groups. (references) | |
New Zealand | Asians, who make up less than 5 percent of the population, also experience discrimination. (references) | |
Political Economy | Japan | Many cases end up in court. (references) |
Bulgaria | The UDF and the BSP make up the opposition. (references) | |
Uruguay | Up to two candidates per party may be nominated. (references) | |
Political Rights | Peru | Treason carries up to a life sentence. (references) |
Peru | Blank and null votes did not make up a significant percentage of the votes in the second round. (references) | |
Pakistan | Six women held seats in the suspended 217-member National Assembly, up from 4 seats in the previous Parliament. (references) | |
Trade | Sri Lanka | LCs are valid for up to 180 days. (references) |
Kenya | The process can take up to three years. (references) | |
Taiwan | They must also put up bonds of NT$20 million. (references) | |
Travel | Poland | Permits are issued for up to 12 months. (references) |
Chad | The course is not up to U.S. or European standards. (references) | |
Italy | Samples may remain in the country for up to 1 year. (references) | |
Women | Australia | Punishment for these crimes can include up to 7 years in prison. (references) |
Hungary | Sentences of up to 3 years' imprisonment may be imposed for sexual harassment. (references) | |
Cambodia | The NGO also estimated that there are up to 55,000 sex workers in the country. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Egypt | NGO's estimate that up to 1.5 million children work. (references) |
Central African Republic | Household employees may work up to 55 hours per week. (references) | |
Burma | Thirty workers were detained, many for up to 3 months. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
David Berkowitz | Not a lot. Once in a while some people come up. I have a number of friends from the area who come by and visit. |
Dennis Miller | Lighten up, Mumzie Hughes. |
Fran Drescher | Two brothers. One robbed my house and loaded up my car with all of my possessions, the other one raped myself and my girlfriend. |
Joan Rivers | Very close, and he said, Melissa, I'm coming home. I'll see you tomorrow. And he hung up the phone and killed himself. |
Phyllis Diller | When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body, I wear snow chains to hold up my gown. |
Robert Novak | Mrs. Dole, there's a lot of worries about a double-dip recession. The president is having an economic forum in Texas, coming up. |
Rush Limbaugh | Open up your tax returns. |
William Shatner | Roddenberry set up a concept and that was critical. A lot of people after that have run with the ball. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | To avoid this waste of our resources it is proposed to add to our navy-yard here a dock within which our present vessels may be laid up dry and under cover from the sun. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | When Franklin Roosevelt died, I thought there must be a million men more qualified than I to take up the Presidential task. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Others will need to revise their constitutions and their laws to bring them up to date-as we are doing. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I am always an optimist, but we must make up for lost time. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Inflation has driven up home prices, operating costs and interest rates. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Each time, unemployment has increased and inflation soon turned up again. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Something tells me a number of taxpayers may take us up on this one. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Reading, math, college entrance scores are up. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We've seen the greatness of America in rescuers who rushed up flights of stairs toward peril. |
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| "Up" is generally used as an adverb (prepositional) -- approximately 98.37% of the time. "Up" is used about 156,671 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (prepositional) | 98.37% | 154,125 | 65 |
| Preposition (except "of") | 1.51% | 2,368 | 3,768 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.07% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Noun (common) | 0.02% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 156,671 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "up". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Alva | N/A | N/A | His rising up |
| Ely | N/A | N/A | The offering or lifting up |
| Ahikam | N/A | Biblical | A brother who raises up or avenges |
| Alvah | N/A | Biblical | His rising up |
| Amalek | N/A | Biblical | A people that licks up |
| Belteshazzar | N/A | Biblical | Who lays up treasures in secret |
| Eli | N/A | Biblical | The offering or lifting up |
| Eshean | N/A | Biblical | Held up |
| Gallim | N/A | Biblical | Who heap up |
| Gibeon | N/A | Biblical | Thing lifted up |
| Heli | N/A | Biblical | Climbing up |
| Jethlah | N/A | Biblical | Hanging up |
| Jethlah | N/A | Biblical | Heaping up |
| Jeuel | N/A | Biblical | God heaping up |
| Joelah | N/A | Biblical | Lifting up |
| Jokneam | N/A | Biblical | Building up |
| Kemuel | N/A | Biblical | God hath raised up |
| Lot | N/A | Biblical | Wrapt up |
| Maai | N/A | Biblical | Heaping up |
| Medeba | N/A | Biblical | Waters springing up |
| No | N/A | Biblical | Stirring up |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Up Inc. | South Korea | Shin Hwa Sil Up Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "up": a card up one's sleeve ♦ a hang up ♦ act up ♦ act up to ♦ act up to one's promise ♦ add up ♦ add up to ♦ agitation build up ♦ agive up ♦ all dolled up ♦ all ends up ♦ all is up with him ♦ all mixed up ♦ all the seats are booked up ♦ all up ♦ an up stroke ♦ an up train ♦ ante up ♦ arms building up ♦ art up ♦ ask smb. up ♦ average up to ♦ back up ♦ back up a car ♦ backed up ♦ backing up ♦ bad pennies always turn up ♦ badly brought up ♦ bail up ♦ ball things up ♦ ball up ♦ balling up ♦ balls up ♦ bang up ♦ banged up ♦ bank up ♦ bank up fire ♦ bar up ♦ bark up the wrong tree ♦ bash up ♦ be all up ♦ be all up with smb. ♦ be blocked up ♦ be blown up with conceit ♦ be blown up with pride ♦ be booked up ♦ be boozed up ♦ be buoyed up ♦ be caught up in ♦ be caught up in smth. ♦ be choked up ♦ be cooped up ♦ be cooped up somewhere ♦ be cut up ♦ be dead from the neck up ♦ be done up ♦ be dried up ♦ be fed up ♦ be fed up of ♦ be fed up with ♦ be furred up ♦ be hard up ♦ be held up ♦ be hung up ♦ be hung up on ♦ be hung up on smb. ♦ be hyped up ♦ be laid up ♦ be laid up with ♦ be locked up ♦ be made up of ♦ be mixed up ♦ be on the up and up ♦ be opening up ♦ be picked up ♦ be piled up ♦ be puffed up ♦ be pushing up the daisies ♦ be set up ♦ be shook up ♦ be steamed up ♦ be strung up ♦ be taken up with ♦ be up ♦ be up a gum tree ♦ be up a tree ♦ be up against ♦ be up against it ♦ be up all night ♦ be up and about ♦ be up and about again ♦ be up and down ♦ be up for ♦ be up for grabs ♦ be up for sale ♦ be up in arms ♦ be up in arms about ♦ be up in arms against ♦ be up in the air ♦ be up late ♦ be up the mark. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "up": up-a-daisy!, up-and-coming, up-and-comings, up-and-down, up-and-over, up-and-running, up-and-thrusting, up-and-under, up-and-unders, up-beat, up-bow, up-branch, up-breeze, up-bringing, up-bullets, up-channel, up-close, up-coming, up-country, up-current, up-date, up-dated, up-dates, up-dating, up-dip, up-down, up-draught, up-end, up-ended, up-ending, up-ends, up-escalator, up-escalators, up-field, up-flight, up-from-under, up-front, up-goods, up-gradable, up-grade, up-gradeable, up-graded, up-grades, up-gradient, up-grading, up-gradings, up-hill, up-holding, up-hook, up-i, up-keep, up-lake, up-level, up-lift, up-lifted, up-lighter, up-lighters, up-line, up-link, up-man, up-market, up-milling, Up-over, up-penalty, up-pipe, up-posting, up-problem, up-pseudo-cost, up-rate, up-rated, up-rating, up-regulated, up-regulation, Up-Regulation (Physiology), up-right, up-river, up-rootedness, up-scale, up-scroller, up-side, up-side-down, up-skilling, up-slope, up-spec, up-specification, up-stage, up-staged, up-stand, up-starting, up-state, up-stream, up-stream, up-stretched, up-stroke, up-strokes, up-sun, up-swing, up-tempo, up-the-price, up-tide, up-time, up-to, up-to-date, up-to-date technique, up-to-dateness, up-to-date-records, up-to-minute, up-to-the, up-to-the-hilt, up-to-the-minute, up-tothe-minute, up-to-time, up-town, up-trading, Up-train, up-turn, up-turned, up-turning, up-up-and-away, up-valley, up-wind, up-ya-boya. | |
Ending with "up": act-up, all-up, banked-up, blocked-up, blow-up, boarded-up, bombed-up, boot-up, botch-up, bottled-up, breaking-up, brew-up, bricked-up, broken-up, brought-up, brush-up, bubble-up, building-up, button-up, called-up, call-up, carve-up, catching-up, catch-up, chat-up, chewed-up, cleaned-up, cleaning-up, clear-up, clocked-up, clogged-up, closed-up, clued-up, coked-up, covered-up, crunched-up, curled-up, cut-up, dammed-up, dolled-up, doubled-up, double-up, drawing-up, dressing-up, drink-up, drying-up, dug-up, fed-up, filled-up, fill-up, fired-up, fold-up, followed-up, following-up, fry-up, furred-up, giddy-up, going-up, ground-up, growing-up, grown-up, hard-up, headed-up, head-up, het-up, hive-up, holed-up, hotted-up, hunched-up, hyped-up, iced-up, idle-up, joined-up, keyed-up, knees-up, knocker-up, laced-up, lace-up, laid-up, laying-up, lead-up, leg-up, lift-up, lined-up, link-up, lit-up, locked-up, mopping-up, nosh-up, one-up, opening-up, patched-up, picked-up, picking-up, piled-up, pile-up, piling-up, pissed-up, power-up, puffed-up, put-you-up, roll-up, runners-up, scaled-up, screwed-up, screw-up, scrunched-up, send-up, sewing-up, sewn-up, shoot-em-up, shoring-up, shut-up, signed-up, silted-up, smashed-up, snapped-up, softening-up, souped-up, speeded-up, speeding-up, speed-up, spruced-up, squashed-up, steamed-up, stepped-up, stepping-up, stick-up, stitch-up, strung-up, summed-up, summing-up, sun-up, tarted-up, teamed-up, throw-up, thumbs-up, tidying-up, tied-up, tie-up, tightening-up, time-up, tip-up, tone-up, ton-up, topping-up, top-up, torn-up, toss-up, trade-up, trumped-up, tune-up, turned-up, turn-up, two-up, unmade-up, used-up, wake-up, walk-up, warmed-up, warming-up, warm-up, washed-up, washer-up, washing-up, well-brought-up, wheels-up, winding-up, wind-up, wired-up, wised-up, work-up, wound-up, wrapped-up, write-up, writing-up, written-up, zip-up. | |
Containing "up": all-up weight, back-up area, back-up army, back-up copy, Back-up-service, bang-up-to-date, bang-up-to-the-minute, battered beat-up beaten-up bedraggled broken-down dilapidated ramshackle tumble-down unsound, be a paid-up member, blown-up enlarged, bottom-up implementation, bottom-up model, bottom-up testing, breaking-up mood, built-up area, built-up guns, bust-up takeover, calling-up papers, call-up papers, casters-up mode, chat-up line, churning churned-up roiling roiled roily turbulent, cleaning-up operation, clean-up-the-mess, colour look-up table, curled-up-with-age, densely built-up area, do-dum-dum-waking-up-is-hard-to-do, dried-up-looking, drying-up cloth, eye make-up preparations, faked-up evidence, fill-up traffic, fly-up indication, fold-up-and-put-away, follow-up attack, follow-up examination, follow-up forces, follow-up letter, Follow-Up Studies, follow-up treatment, follow-up visit, foot-up an account, foot-up to, forming-up area, fully paid-up member, getting-up-time, get-up-and-go, get-up-and-jig, head-up display, hold-up man, hold-up-man, hurry-up breakfast, join-up-the-dots, jumped-up people, jumped-up-gentleman, knees-up-muvver-brown, lace-up shoe, laying-up position, line-up-outside-the-door-and-you-can't-come-in-until-you're-quiet, lock-up option, lock-up-your-daughters, make cock-up of smth., make-it-up-as-you-go-along, make-up area, make-up artist, make-up bag, make-up girl, make-up kit, make-up mirror, make-up remover, make-up room, make-up-free, make-up-less, make-up-stained, make-up-the-numbers, mark-up price, mixed-up debate, more-up-beat, most-up-to-date, one-up smb., paid-up capital, paid-up policy, pent-up feelings, pent-up repressed, pick-up car, pick-up traffic, pick-up-able, pick-up-ey, pick-up-point, piece-turned-stuck-up-councillor's, pin-up girl, pop-up menu, pop-up target, pop-up-book, puffed-up with pleasure, pull-up point, put-up job, put-up-on, right-way-up-cups, roll-up shutter, rub-up-a-gal, runner-up finish, run-up area, saddle-up-and-ride-into-the, screwed-up-sex, Setting-up exercise, setting-up exercises, shutting-up-shop, sit-up-and-beg, sit-up-and-beg-bike, smashed-up-looking, speed-up-system, stand-up bar, stand-up collar, stand-up comedian, stand-up fight, stand-up meal, stepped-up separation, step-up transformer, straight-up-and-down, stuck-up person, stuck-up twit, stuck-up-looking, thanks-for-putting-up-with-them-and-that-wasn't-too-bad-was-it, tip-up seat, ton-up boys, turned-up nose, turn-up bedstead, turn-up-and-try-it, two-up-two-down, two-up-two-downs, wake-up signal, wake-up-a-poet-or-a-madman, waking-up time, walk-up apartment, warm-up exercise, washing-up liquid, washing-up water, washing-up-liquids, whatever-negative-description-you-can-come-up-with, wheels-up landing, winding-up mechanism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pop up stopper | 8,157 | dress up doll | 1,077 |
pop up blocker | 7,049 | dress up | 1,047 |