Go Up

Definition: Go Up

Go Up

Verb

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

2. Increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year".

3. Move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer".

4. Be erected, built, or constructed; "New buildings are going up everywhere".

5. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?".

6. Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire; "The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames".

7. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope".

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

Synonyms: Go Up

Ascent

Verb: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.

Calefaction

Go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame).

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Impotence

Collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke; (fail).

Crosswords: Go Up

It's our time down here! That's all over once we go up Troy's bucket! (Goonies; writing credit: Chris Columbus)

Of course the bra isn't going to fit on a leotard! A bra's got to go up against the skin! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean)

They go up. (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

You can't just go up to a woman and say, 'Hi! (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman)

I'll go up where the air is fresh and sweet (Up On the Roof; performing artist: James Taylor)

Glasses go up (All Eyez On Me; performing artist: Monica)

I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast, (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

All the dreams we held so close seemed to all go up in smoke (ANGIE; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

And go up instead of down (Brand New Day; performing artist: Sting)

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

Books

• If It Doesn't Go Up, Don't Buy It! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• GMWA Men of Promise: Since He Got Up, I Can Go Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

LCVPs from USS Noble (APA-218) wait their turn to go up to the Inchon pontoon docks to unload troops and supplies, on the first day of the landings, 15 September 1950. Credit: NAVY.

They who go up in the air in ships. Credit: Library of Congress.

The curtain is about to go up. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jump in mister -- I'll take ya down! : I don't want to go down, I wanna go up!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crowd waiting to go up in Washington Monument, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Men spiking logs to go up ramp into sawmill. It was working only halftime and was even slower in winter. "It's kinder hard them times. Concrete and steel's taking the place of lumber nowadays. Erwin, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japanese-American volunteers. Second and larger group on Kauai, Hawaii to go up for physical examination, the Makaweli draft board registrants answer roll call outside their board prior to going up for the physical. Calling roll is Captain J.J. Fallon of. Credit: Library of Congress.

Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and one acre lot are sold to workers who build their houses on them. No payment on principal are made for the first four years; interest payments start at three percent and go up to six pe. Credit: Library of Congress.

The first walls go up after the foundation has been built on prefabricated houses built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) to house some of the farmers who had to move out of the Camp Croft area region. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cars attempting to go up the creek beds often must be hauled out by mules, the best and most common means of transportation in some mountain sections of Breathitt County, Kentucky. Up South Fork of Kentucky River. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He passed the door a dozen times, before he had the courage to go up and knock.

They saw him go up to the stove where there was never any fire, and the pipe of which, you know, was plastered with yellow clay.

He would go up and tell the rector that he had been wrongly punished.

While these things go up other things come down.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If the infection is not treated promptly, bacteria may then go up the ureters to infect the kidneys (pyelonephritis). (references)

If sugar is further down, fourth, fifth, or sixth, it probably will not cause your blood sugar levels to go up excessively. (references)

If blood sugar levels continue to go up and you are not gaining excessive weight or eating improperly, the safest therapy for the well-being of the fetus is insulin. (references)

Business

Growth in imports is projected at three percent; local production is expected to rise 20 percent, and imports from the U.S. are expected to go up by 12 percent during that same period. (references)

Domestic production of PCI reached USD 162 million in 1999; was expected to go up to USD 200 million in 2000, and USD 250 million in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, domestic production is likely to grow 15 to 20 percent. (references)

In the private sector, the turnaround time for paying invoices is never less than 90 days, but sometimes it may go up to 120-180 days. Foreign companies should be aware that public customers are often much slower in paying. (references)

Economic History

Qatar

Tariffs in general are expected to go up when the GCC countries adopt a unified tariff code. (references)

Mauritius

Also, clothing exports to the U.S. market is expected to go up by 30% in 2001, thanks to AGOA. (references)

Mauritius

Clothing exports to the U.S. market are expected to go up by 30% in 2001, thanks mainly to AGOA. (references)

Political Economy

BELGIUM

For 2002, unemployment is expected to go up again. (references)

BELGIUM

Wage costs seem to be under control, but unemployment is expected to go up again after reaching a 10-year low in the middle of 2001. However, the seven percent is an average figure which glosses over significant differences, both between demand and supply as well as between regions. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "go up": go up again ♦ go up and down/to ♦ go up for ♦ go up in flames ♦ go up in smoke ♦ go up the valley ♦ go up to ♦ go up to one's room ♦ To go up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

styg (accrue, advance, arise, ascend, climb, get, get up, increase, lift, rise), opstaan (arise, ascend, get, get up, lift, rise, stand, stand up), opgaan (ascend, climb, tread, walk, walk upon). (various references)

Albanian

ngjitem (adhere, ascend, climb, climb up, cling, come up, knit, Mount, ride, scale, scramble, stick together, swarm up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), ‏طلع (acquaint, ascend, be acquainted with, be updated, brief, climb, hip, inform, introduce, prime, rise, run down), ‏صعد (ascend, ascent, balloon, climb, embark, escalate, manacle, rise, scale, sublimate, uphill). (various references)

Basque

igo (go up to, raise o.self up to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

качвам се (board, climb, come up, get on, get up, kite, step on), изкачвам се (ascend, climb up, get up, make the grade), издигам се (advance, arise, arose, ascend, aspire, flow, jump, loft, move up, peak, push up, rise, rise in the world, shoot up, tower, uprise). (various references)

Chinese 

隮 (rainbow), 躋 , 登 (ascend, climb, mount, note, register, scale, to issue, to publish, to record), 上昇 (rise). (various references)

Czech

vzlétnout (lift off), vyletìt do povìtří, stoupat (ascend, climb, lose height, rise, run up, slope up), stavìt se (be under construction), jít nahoru, šplhat se na. (various references)

Dutch

wassen (accrue, arise, ascend, bathe, blend, get up, grow, lift, mingle, mix, rise, shuffle, wash), verrýzen (arise, ascend, get up, lift, rise), stýgen (accrue, advance, arise, ascend, augment, climb, get up, grow, increase, lift, rise), rýzen (accrue, advance, arise, ascend, climb, get up, increase, lift, rise, swell), opstaan (arise, ascend, cook, get up, lift, rise, stand, stand up), oplopen (accrue, advance, ascend, increase), opkomen (arise, ascend, get up, lift, rise), opgaan (arise, ascend, be valid, get up, lift, rise, tread, walk, walk upon), naar boven gaan (ascend, climb), klimmen (ascend, climb), bestýgen (ascend, climb, tread, walk, walk upon). (various references)

Esperanto

supreniri (ascend, climb), plialtiĝi (ascend, increase), leviĝi (arise, ascend, get up, lift, rise), ascendi. (various references)

Faeroese

fara niðan á. (various references)

Finnish

kohota (advance, ascend, be promoted, climb, increase, rise). (various references)

French

se soulever, s'élever, monter en haut, monter (go uphill). (various references)

Frisian

stige (arise, ascend, get up, lift, rise). (various references)

German

steigen (arise, ascend, climb, flow, get up, increase, lift, Mount, move up, put up, rear, rise, rising, soar, step, stiles, to be on the increase), aufgehen (arise, ascend, be taken up with, become apparent, come off, come out, come undone, come unstitched, come up, dawn, get up, lift, open, open out, open up, opening, Orient, rise, rising, to rise, unfasten, unzip, work out). (various references)

Greek 

ανεβαίνω (ascend, climb, climb up, come in, come up, get on, mount, rise). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעלות (advance, ascend, climb, florish, grow, rise, uphill), ל�"תמר (billow, curl up, rise). (various references)

Hungarian

felszáll (ascend, get on, lift, lift off, soar, take off, take to, to ascend, to board, to clear away, to get off the ground, to hop off, to lift off, to puff up, to shoot up, to soar, to take to the air), felmegy (Mount, to ascend, to come up, to get up, to mount, to step up), emelkedik (climb, heave, heighten, hove, lift, rise, stand up, to ascend, to augment, to balloon, to be on the upgrade, to climb, to heave, to heighten, to improve, to rise to eminence, to take the floor, to tower). (various references)

Indonesian

mengatas (go up and up). (various references)

Italian

salire (advance, arise, ascend, climb, come up, flood, get, get on, get up, go, lift, Mount, ride up, rise, to go up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

昇る (to arise, to ascend, to go up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちのぼる (to go up, to rise up), のぼる (to add up to, to advance, to arise, to ascend, to be promoted, to climb, to come up, to go to, to go up, to rise, to sail up), かい� �"�'のぼる (to go up the stairs), あがる (to accrue, to advance, to appreciate, to be captured, to be offered, to be promoted, to become prosperous, to call on, to climb up, to enter, to go up, to improve, to rise), ろうにのぼる (to go up a tower), ゆきつもどりつ (to go up and down or back and forth), やねにあがる (to go up on the roof). (various references)

Manx

yrjaghey (draw, elate, elation, elevation, enhance, exalt, exaltation, exhilarate, exhilaration, heighten, hoist, raise, retract, rise), goll seose (ascendant, ascent, lead up, mount, mounting, run, veer, veer wind, wester, wester south to west). (various references)

Occitan

pojar (climb). (various references)

Papiamen

subi (ascend, climb, lever, lift, raise). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay upay

Polish

iść w górę. (various references)

Portuguese

subir (accrue, advance, ascend, aspire, climb, come up, heighten, improve, increase, mount, puff, rise, scale, scramble, steepen, up, uprise), aumentar (accrete, accrue, add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, develop, double, eke, enhance, enlarge, expand, explode, get about, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, raise, redouble, redound, rise, steepen, stiffen, thicken, up, wax). (various references)

Romanian

urca (ascend, bestride, grow, heave, lift, Mount, rise, scale, soar, swell, uplift), umbla (circulate, drive, go, journey, leg it, pace, pad, ride, scour, travel, walk, wander, work), råsåri (arise, ascend, get up, lift, rise), exploda (blast, blow out, blow up, burst, detonate, explode, fulminate, go bang, go off), creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax). (various references)

Romansch

muntar (to go up). (various references)

Russian 

повышаться (rise, soared). (various references)

Scottish

éirich (arise, ascend, get up, lift, rise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skočiti (dive, jump, leap, plunge, rally, spring, vault), rasti (come up, grow, outgrow, rise, wax), popeti se (climb, mount, scale). (various references)

Spanish

subir (advance, arise, ascend, bump up, carry up, climb, come up, get into, get up, lift, move up, raise, rise, step up, take up, upload, walk up). (various references)

Swedish

gå upp (come up, gain, lay, lift, surface), resa in, dala (ascend, climb, decline, sag, sink). (various references)

Tagalog

umáakyát (ascend, climb). (various references)

Turkish

yükselmek (arise, ascend, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, climb, develop, escalate, flow, gain, get one's promotion, harden, heighten, improve, Louden, nose up, rear up, rise, scale up, soar, steepen, step up, sublime, swell, tower, upheave, upsurge, work one's way up), yükseğine gitmek, patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), londra'ya gitmek, havaya uçmak (blow up), artmak (accrete, accrue, advance, ascend, augment, be left, be left over, deepen, duplicate, harden, heighten, increase, mount up, multiply, remain, rise, scale up, soar, step up, swell, wax), açılmak (admit smb. into one's confidence, air, bare, be opened, become relaxed, come loose, come open, come undone, disclose one's secret, disentangle, disperse, diverge, effuse, expand, fine, flower, gape, get loose, loosen, loosen up, open, open in, open oneself, open out, open up, recrudesce, refresh, spread, thaw, unbend, uncurl, unfasten, unfold, unfurl, unload, untwine, untwist, unwind, work loose, yawn). (various references)

Turkmen 

зemeleюmek (approach, arrive, go up to). (various references)

Ukrainian

зростати (come on, increase, steepen), будуватися (be under construction), підійматися (come up, run high). (various references)

Yucatec

liik'il (arise, ascend, get up, lift, rise). (various references)

Zulu

-enyuka (ascend, climb). (various references)

conscendo, escendo, escendo, -scensi, scensum. (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Go Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pug, upo.

-2 letters: go, op, up.

+1 letter: group.

+2 letters: groups, oppugn, pigout, plough, popgun, putlog, upgrow.

+3 letters: couping, gluepot, grouped, grouper, groupie, grownup, gumdrop, ingroup, louping, oppugns, pigouts, pirogue, ploughs, plugola, popguns, pouring, pouting, prurigo, putlogs, regroup, rouping, souping, upgoing, upgrown, upgrows.

+4 letters: apologue, boughpot, coupling, epigeous, epigonus, epilogue, geepound, gluepots, groupers, groupies, grouping, groupoid, grownups, gumdrops, gumption, gunpoint, gypseous, hypogeum, ingroups, longspur, opaquing, oppugned, oppugner, outgroup, pirogues, pishogue, ploughed, plougher, plugolas, plumbago, postdrug, pouching, pouncing, poundage, pounding, prologue, promulge, prorogue, prurigos, regroups, spousing, spouting, subgroup, superego, trouping, upcoming, upgrowth, uropygia.