Adjective up has 8 senses
- up - 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"
Antonyms: down, behind, trailing, downbound, downcast, downfield, downward, fallen, set, thrown
- improving, up - getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"
Antonym: falling (indirect, via rising)
- up, upward - extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"
Antonym: descending (indirect, via ascending)
- up - (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game"
Antonym: unprepared (indirect, via prepared)
- up - open; "the windows are up"
Antonym: lowered (indirect, via raised)
- up - (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"
Antonyms: malfunctioning, nonfunctional (indirect, via functioning)
- up - used up; "time is up"
Antonym: unfinished (indirect, via finished)
- astir, up - out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning"
Antonym: asleep (indirect, via awake)
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Adverbial up has 5 senses
- up, upwards, upward, upwardly - 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"
Antonyms: down, downwards, downward, downwardly
- up - to a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume"
Antonyms: down
- up - nearer to the speaker; "he walked up and grabbed my lapels"
- up - to a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation"
Antonyms: down
- up, upwards, upward - to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
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Verb up has 1 sense
- up - raise; "up the ante"
--1 is one way to increase
Sample sentence:
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