(not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
(not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
(not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
(figuratively, not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
(not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(UK, dated, not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
(not-comparable) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
(emphatic, intensifier, not-comparable) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
(not-comparable) To one's possession or consideration.
(not-comparable) From one's possession or consideration.
(not-comparable) Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
(not-comparable) Relatively close to the batsman.
(US, not-comparable) Without additional ice.

Toward the top of.
Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
From south to north of.
Further along (in any direction).
From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
(slang, vulgar) Of a person: having sex with.
(colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).

(not-comparable) Facing upwards.
(not-comparable) On or at a physically higher level.
(not-comparable) Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
(not-comparable) Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
(broadly, not-comparable) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
(not-comparable) Aloft.
(not-comparable) Raised; lifted.
(not-comparable) Built, constructed.
(not-comparable) Standing; upright.
(not-comparable, obsolete) Risen up, rebelling, in revolt.
(not-comparable) Awake and out of bed.
(not-comparable) Riding the horse; mounted.
(not-comparable) Above the horizon, in the sky.
(not-comparable) Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
(not-comparable) Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
(not-comparable) Ahead; leading; winning.
(not-comparable, predicative) Finished, to an end
(not-comparable) In a good mood.
(not-comparable) Willing; ready.
(not-comparable) Next in a sequence.
(not-comparable, predicative) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
(not-comparable, postpositional) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
(not-comparable) Well-informed; current.
(not-comparable) Functional; working.
(not-comparable) Traveling towards a major terminus.
(US, not-comparable) Chilled and served without ice.
(not-comparable, slang) Erect.
(UK, dated, not-comparable) At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
(not-comparable, slang) well-known; renowned

(uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
(countable) A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
(countable, particle, uncountable) An up quark.
(countable, uncountable) An upstairs room of a two story house.

(in-certain-phrases, poetic, transitive) To physically raise or lift.
(colloquial, transitive) To increase the level or amount of.
(colloquial, transitive) To promote.
(in-compounds, intransitive, often) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
(archaic, intransitive, poetic) To ascend; to climb up.
(slang, transitive) To upload.

ups

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up

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