Up definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary UP, adv. 1. Aloft; on high But up or down - 2. Out of bed. He is not up. 3. Having risen from a seat. Sir Roger was up. 4. From a state of concealment or discumbiture. 5. In a state of being built. Up with my tent. 6. Above the horizon. The sun ...
pick up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: take and lift upward [syn: pick up, lift up, gather up] 2: take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read" 3: give a ...
set up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn: establish, set up, found, launch] [ant: abolish, get rid of] 2: create by ... pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" [syn: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together] [ant: break apart, break up, disassemble, ...
take up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: pursue or resume; "take up a matter for consideration" 2: adopt; "take up new ideas" [syn: take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize on] 3: turn one's interest to; "He took up herpetology at the age of fifty" 4: take up time or space; "take up the slack" 5: begin ...
make up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: form or ... the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a ... few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 2: devise or compose; "This designer makes up our Spring collections" 3: do or give something to somebody ... the work you are doing?" [syn: pay, pay off, make up, compensate] 4: make up work that was missed due to absence at a ...
... go to walk, to pass.] 1. To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture ... The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up. Acts 12. 2. To set upright; as, to raise a mast. 3. To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together ... Isaiah 29. amos 9. 5. To rebuild. They shall raise up the former desolations. Isaiah 61. 6. To form to some ... To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up. Acts 14. AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote ... the Tuscan swains. 15. To rouse; to awake; to stir up. They shall not awake, not be raised out of ...
... meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds. 2. To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed. 3. To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall. 4. To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, to ... o'clock. 12. To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader's view. 13. To appear in sight ... rise. 18. To be excited or roused into action. Rise up to the battle. Jeremiah 49. 19. To make a hostile ... as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ ...
To blow up definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Up Up, adv. [AS. up, upp, ?p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. ?p, OHG. ?f, G. auf, Icel ... higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. -- ...
up and down definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1 ... moving backward and forward along a given course; "he walked up and down the locker room"; "all up and down the Eastern seaboard" 2: alternately upward and downward; "he eyed him up and down" Merriam Webster's adverb Date: 12th century 1. to and fro < paced up and down > 2. alternately upward and downward < jump up and down > 3. archaic here and there especially throughout ...
put up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: place so ... sign"; "post a warning at the dump" [syn: post, put up] 2: mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance" [syn: put up, provide, offer] 3: construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, ...
hold up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: be the ... physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I ... What's holding that mirror?" [syn: hold, support, sustain, hold up] 2: hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration 3: cause to be slowed ... she didn't want to perform" [syn: delay, detain, hold up] [ant: hurry, rush] 4: rob at gunpoint or by ...
To cut up definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Up Up, adv. [AS. up, upp, ?p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. ?p, OHG. ?f, G. auf, Icel ... higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. -- ...
To come up with definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Up Up, adv. [AS. up, upp, ?p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. ?p, OHG. ?f, G. auf, Icel ... higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. -- ...
blow up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: cause to ... energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" [syn: explode, detonate, blow up, set off] 2: make large; "blow up an image" [syn: blow up, enlarge, magnify] [ant: reduce, scale down] 3: get very angry ... makes me go ballistic" [syn: flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have ... details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise] 5: burst and release energy as through ...
To grow up definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Up Up, adv. [AS. up, upp, ?p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. ?p, OHG. ?f, G. auf, Icel ... higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. -- ...