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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

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Examples
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

Source: WordNet 3.0
Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.

adjective

Source: webster1913

The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs.

noun

Source: webster1913

From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.

preposition

Source: webster1913

spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position

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Examples
Look up!

The music surged up.

The fragments flew upwards.

Prices soared upwards.

Upwardly mobile.

Synonyms upward upwardly upwards

Antonyms down downward downwardly downwards

Source: WordNet 3.0
to a higher intensity

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Examples
He turned up the volume.

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nearer to the speaker

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Examples
He walked up and grabbed my lapels.

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to a more central or a more northerly place

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Examples
Was transferred up to headquarters.

Up to Canada for a vacation.

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to a later time

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Examples
They moved the meeting date up.

From childhood upward.

Source: WordNet 3.0
Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down.

adverb

Source: webster1913