Up
/ap/
noun
The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
“Up is a good way to go.”
A positive thing.
“I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.”
An upstairs room of a two story house.
“She lives in a two-up two-down.”
verb
To increase or raise.
“If we up the volume, we may be able to hear what he says.”
To promote.
“It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.”
(usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly.
“He just upped and quit.”
Synonyms: turn up
adjective
Facing upwards.
“Put the notebook face up on the table.”
On or at a physically higher level.
“The flood waters are up again across large areas of the country.”
Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
“Where is the up escalator?”
adverb
Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
“I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.”
To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
“All day we climbed up and up.”
To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
“Cheer up, the weekend's almost here.”
Synonyms: alley oop
preposition
Toward the top of.
“The cat climbed up the tree.”
Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
“I felt something crawling up my arm.”
From south to north of.
“We sailed up the East Coast of England from Ipswich to South Shields.”