up
- adverb
- /ʌp/
- After the concert, everyone walked up the street to the nearest restaurant.
All the way down, all the way up mid range.
- All the way down, all the way up mid range.
- This cat starts looking up and runs that way.
- So we we walk up to the Soho Grand.
- We see candidates, we see them up in the Northwest.
- But maybe they'll see a good sunset up there and bear it.
- Amarillo by morning, up from Dallas, TX.
- It's going to mix to the left, to the right, and up equally fast.
- So look up, look up, look up and relax.
Examples
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The sun will be up in a few hours.
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My contract is up at the end of this year.
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So look up, look up, look up and relax.
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So it goes all the way up to there.
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Maybe we should go up the side like this, OK?
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What do you think we're up here for?
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So we are going up to the fifth floor.
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There is somewhere up there a little white dot.
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So here I am up in my attic.
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He just bought 30 acres up in, uh, Oregon.
Synonyms
In the direction of someone or something
Toward the top of a map
Moves toward a higher place, level, or amount
Going toward the top of a hill or road
Toward the place where a river starts and against the water flow
In a direction toward the north
Up toward the sky
Towards the north
Toward the higher part of a valley near where the river starts
In the direction going up a hill or slope
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To take responsibility and act when a difficult situation happens
- Informal
Decide or think of things during a situation without planning ahead
- Informal
Try to have the same things and life as neighbors to appear successful
Compounds
- Informal
An emotional problem that makes someone feel nervous or unable to act normally
- Literature
A short article that describes an event, often in a newspaper or magazine
An exercise where you lie on your back and lift your upper body to strengthen stomach muscles
- Jargon
A close shot near the basket in basketball made with one hand, often off the backboard
How Near
Surface Forms
Etymology
Up for moving toward a place uses the simple picture of maps with north at the top, so people often say they moved up to the north or to a central place. This 'top of the map' image explains why up can mean toward or closer to a reference point.