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— English words —
  • up adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
  • up adv. To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
  • up adv. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
  • up adv. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from…
  • up adv. (Intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
  • up adv. To or from one’s possession or consideration.
  • up adv. North.
  • up adv. Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as ’up’ by virtue of local features or…
  • up adv. (Rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
  • up adv. Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
  • up adv. (Sailing) Against the wind or current.
  • up adv. (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
  • up adv. (Cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
  • up adv. (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
  • up adv. (UK, academia, dated) To university, especially to Cambridge or Oxford.
  • up prep. Toward the top of.
  • up prep. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
  • up prep. From south to north of.
  • up prep. Further along (in any direction).
  • up prep. From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
  • up prep. (Vulgar slang) Of a man: having sex with.
  • up prep. (Colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
  • up adj. Facing upwards.
  • up adj. On or at a physically higher level.
  • up adj. Headed or designated to go upward (As an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
  • up adj. Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
  • up adj. (By extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
  • up adj. Aloft.
  • up adj. Raised; lifted.
  • up adj. Built, constructed.
  • up adj. Standing; upright.
  • up adj. (Obsolete) Risen up, rebelling, in revolt.
  • up adj. Awake and out of bed.
  • up adj. (Horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
  • up adj. (Of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
  • up adj. Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
  • up adj. Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
  • up adj. Ahead; leading; winning.
  • up adj. Finished, to an end.
  • up adj. In a good mood.
  • up adj. (Usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
  • up adj. Next in a sequence.
  • up adj. (Not used attributively) Happening; new; of concern. See also what’s up, what’s up with.
  • up adj. (Poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
  • up adj. Well-informed; current.
  • up adj. (Computing) Functional; working.
  • up adj. (Of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
  • up adj. (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice.
  • up adj. (Slang) Erect. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  • up adj. (UK) At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
  • up adj. (Slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned.
  • up n. (Uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
  • up n. (Countable) A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
  • up n. (Particle physics) An up quark.
  • up n. An upstairs room of a two story house.
  • up v. (Transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
  • up v. (Transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
  • up v. (Transitive, colloquial) To promote.
  • up v. (Intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension…
  • up v. (Intransitive, archaic or poetic) To ascend; to climb up.
  • up v. (Computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
  • UP prop.n. Initialism of Upper Peninsula.
  • UP prop.n. (Religion) Initialism of United Presbyterian.
  • UP prop.n. (India) Initialism of Uttar Pradesh.
  • UP prop.n. (Software) Initialism of Unified Process.
  • UP prop.n. (Philippines) Initialism of University of the Philippines.
  • UP n. Initialism of unqualified prospect.
  • UP n. Initialism of university press.
  • μP n. (Computing) Abbreviation of microprocessor.
  • up- pref. Used to indicate increase.
  • up- pref. Used to indicate higher position or direction, literally or figuratively.
  • U.P. prop.n. Alternative form of UP.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Chinese
    • up v. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to update.
    • up n. Short for up主.
    • up v. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to upload.
    • up v. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 噏 (ngap1).
  • Indonesian
    • UP n. (Law) Initialism of uang pesangon (“severance pay”).
    • UP n. (Education, historical) Initialism of ujian penghabisan.
  • Latvian
    • -up suff. -wards (forms adverbs from nouns with the sense "towards [noun]").
  • Middle dutch
    • up prep. Alternative form of op.
    • up adv. Alternative form of op.
  • Middle english
    • up adv. To a vertical axis.
  • Old armenian
    • -մք suff. First-person plural present-tense ending of verbs.
  • Old dutch
    • up adv. Up, upwards.
  • Old english
    • up- pref. Up, upward.
    • up- pref. Heavenly, from above; upper.
    • uþ- pref. From, away.
    • uþ- pref. Intensive prefix.
  • Old english - Old saxon
    • up adv. Up.
  • Old saxon
    • up prep. Upon.
  • Turkish
    • -up suff. Form of -ip after the vowels O / U.
  • Vietnamese
    • úp v. To upturn, to turn over.
    • úp v. To cover (by using a lid), to lid.
  • Yola
    • up adv. Alternative form of ap.
— English word, defined in German —
  • up Adv. Nach oben.
— English words, defined in Dutch —
  • up bijw. Op, naar boven.
  • up n. (Natuurkunde) naam van een van de zes quarks waaruit protonen en neutronen zijn opgebouwd.
— English words, defined in French —
  • up adj. De haut.
  • up adj. (Chemin de fer) Vers un grand terminus.
  • up adv. Dessus, en haut, sur.
  • up adv. Partie de locutions verbales pour designer un aspect télique.
  • up n. Haut.
  • up prép. En haut de.
  • up v. Augmenter.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • up adv. Arriba.
  • up adv. Derecho, de pie.
  • up adv. Despierto, levantado.
  • up adv. Hasta.
  • up adv. A colación, a consideración.
  • up adv. Más fuerte, más alto, más rápido, más ...
  • up adv. Finalmente, completamente.
  • up prep. Hacia arriba, en lo alto.
  • up prep. A lo largo de, al final de.
  • up v. Incrementar, aumentar.
  • up s. Subida.
— English words, defined in Portuguese —
  • up adj. Avançado, adiantado.
  • up adj. Ascendente, acima do solo.
  • up adj. Perto, chegado.
  • up adv. Pra cima, no alto.
  • up adv. Ereto, em pé.
  • up adv. Cá, pra cá.
  • up adv. Aberto (guarda-chuva).
  • up adv. Nascido (Sol, semente).
  • up adv. Exaltado, em atividade.
  • up adv. Terminado, expirado.
  • up interj. De pé!
  • up prep. Em cima, pra cima, acima.
  • up prep. Em, sobre.
  • up prep. Ao longo, através.
  • up prep. Adentro.
  • up s. Movimento ou curso ascendente, elevação.
  • up s. Boa sorte.
  • up v. Subir, elevar.
  • up v. (Coloquial) (Inglês americano) promover.
  • -up suf. -ape.
— In German —
  • UP Abk. Kunststofftechnik: Ungesättigter Polyester.
— In Dutch —
  • up n. (Natuurkunde) naam van een van de zes quarks waaruit protonen…
  • up n. (Drinken) kleurloze frisdrank met citroen- of limoensmaak.
— In French —
  • up adv. (Anglicisme) (Argot Internet) Dans un forum, mot explétif…
  • UP n.f. (Politique) Université populaire.
349 English words from 94 English definitions

Abbreviation above academia action add additional advance advanced adverbs after Against Ahead Aloft along also Alternative amount and another any A␣positive archaic are ascend Aside aspect attached attributively Available Awake away axis back bartending batsman bed Built by␣extension by␣virtue␣of Cambridge Can Cantonese Cartesian ceiling center central certain Chilled climb climb␣up close close␣to colloquial combination completed completely Computing concern consideration constructed Countable cover Cricket current dated designated direction distant downward Earth Education elevated elevator end ending equal equality Erect escalator especially etc example extension Facing features figuratively Finished First First␣person First-person␣plural Fitted fixed for form forms from Functional Further given given␣place going good graffiti graph gravity greater Happening happiness having having␣sex Headed Heavenly hence high higher historical Hong Hong␣Kong horizon horse Horse␣racing house ice imagined increase India indicate Indicating informed Initialism in␣quantity Intensifier Intensive Intransitive in␣use known Kong larger Law leading less level lid lift lifted line literally local location longer made main major man marker microprocessor milepost mood moon more mounted mouth new Next no␣longer north north␣of not notional noun nouns Obsolete of␣a often one opposed opposite other out out␣of out␣of␣bed over Oxford pair Particle Particle␣physics pay Peninsula person Philippines phrase phrases physically physics pitch place planet plural poetic point point␣of␣reference Poker position positive possession posted postnominal Pradesh prefix Presbyterian present present␣tense press price principal Process promote prospect public pull quantity quark racing Rail Rail␣transport railway railway␣line raise Raised ranking ready rebelling reference relatively Religion renowned revolt Riding rise Risen Risen␣up river room run run␣up Said Sailing See See␣also sense sequence served severance severance␣pay sex short Short␣for short␣of situation sky slang so␣as Software some something source south stairway standing state story such such␣as sun surface tense terminus than that that␣is the thing things this thoroughly time to␣go top to␣the toward towards train transitive transport Traveling turn turn␣over two two␣pair Uncountable Unified United university unqualified unqualified␣prospect update up␣for upload Upon upper Upper␣Peninsula up␣quark upright upstairs upturn upward upwards use used Used␣to using Usually Uttar␣Pradesh value verb verbs vertical view virtue visualised volume vowels Vulgar wall wards waterway well Well-informed well␣known what when which Willing wind winning with without working zero

38 English words from 46 foreign definitions

alto americano ape Argot aspect Augmenter Boa Chemin␣de␣fer cima Dans Derecho designer Drinken een fer final forum grand Hasta haut Internet largo locutions met mot naam pie Politique Polyester pour promover quarks Sol solo sorte terminus van Vers

77 foreign words from 46 foreign definitions

Aberto acima Adentro adiantado Anglicisme -ape arriba ascendente atividade através aumentar Avançado boven chegado Chemin chuva citroen colación Coloquial completamente consideración curso de␣fer De␣haut De␣pé Despierto Dessus elevação elevar Em␣cima em␣pé en␣haut En␣haut␣de Ereto Exaltado expirado explétif Finalmente frisdrank fuerte guarda guarda-chuva Hacia Incrementar Inglês Inglês␣americano Kunststofftechnik levantado locutions␣verbales longo más Movimento naar Nach Nascido Natuurkunde neutronen oben opgebouwd Partie Perto populaire pra protonen rápido semente sobre Subida Subir sur télique Terminado Université verbales waaruit zes zijn

1907 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

UPA UPB UPC UPD μ-PD UPF UPG UPI UPL UPN upo upo' Upp ups UPs UPS μPs UPU UPW upas UPCs updo UPEC UPFs upgo UPJO upla upma UPMC upon up␣on uppe Upps uppy UPSC UPSR upsy upto up␣to uPVC Upali Upāli up␣and upbar upbid upbow up␣bow upcry upcut updip +1857 words

11516 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

AUPE AUPs Bupp Cupa CUPE Cupo Cupp cupr- cups Cups CUPS CUPW dupe dups EUPD FUPA fups FUPs f'ups gups Hupa Hupp jupe Jupp lupe Lupe Lupo Lupu Nupe ouph pupa pupe Pupo pups PUPs pupu pu␣pu rupa Rupe rupi Rupp RUPP supe supp. Supp. sups SUPs supt supt. Tupa +11466 words

3289 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

AUP cup Cup CUP dup DUP fup FUP f'up gup hup nup N-up oup OUP pup Pup PUP RUP sup SUP 'sup sup. Sup. tup UUP yup YUP AAUP A.A.U.P. A-cup A␣cup ayup ay␣up Baup BLUP caup coup crup doup do␣up Dsup E'd␣up eh␣up eyup ey␣up 'ey␣up FOUP gaup go␣up +3239 words

5 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Pu PU P␣U P.U. P.␣U.

124 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

APU AUP CPU cup Cup CUP dup DUP FPU fup FUP f'up GPU gup hup ipu IPU LPU NPU nup N-up oup OUP pau Pau Pcu PCU PDU pfu Phu PHU PKU PLU Pou POU PPU Pru psu PSU PTU pua Pua PUA pub pub. Pub. PUC P.U.C. pud Pud PUD +73 words

137 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

ap Ap AP ap. A&P bp Bp BP Bp. cp CP cp. Cp. C/P DP D/P ep EP ep. FP GP G.P. hp HP H&P Ip IP JP J.P. KP lp LP mp Mp MP M.P. np NP n.p. op OP op. Op. pp PP p&p pp. P&P p.p. p.␣p. Rp RP R/P sp Sp SP s/p S&P s.p. tp TP uA UA U/A UB uc uC UC μC u/c U&C UD 'ud u'd UE ug Ug UG uh UI /uj uK UK U.K. ul Ul UL um UM 'um -um um- un Un UN 'un un- -un- U.N. U&O (+37 words)

19 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

UAP UCP UDP UHP UKP ulp ULP ump UMP UOP Upp urp U-RP USP UTP UUP UVP UWP UYP


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