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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
up adv 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" Synonym(s): up, upwards, upward, upwardly Antonym(s): down, downward, downwardly, downwards to a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume" Antonym(s): down nearer to the speaker; "he walked up and grabbed my lapels" to a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation" Antonym(s): down to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" Synonym(s): up, upwards, upward adj 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" Antonym(s): down out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning" Synonym(s): astir(p), up(p) getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy" Synonym(s): improving, up extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" Synonym(s): up(a), upward(a) (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game" open; "the windows are up" (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?" used up; "time is up" v raise; "up the ante"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Up \Up\, adv. [AS. up, upp, [?]p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. [?]p, OHG. [?]f, G. auf, Icel. [?] Sw. upp, Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See {Over}.] 1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of {down}. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. --Milton. 2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically: (a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied. But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. --Num. xiv. 44. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. --Ps. lxxxviii. 15. Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer. We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. --Atterbury. (b) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. And when the sun was up, they were scorched. --Matt. xiii. 6. Those that were up themselves kept others low. --Spenser. Helen was up -- was she? --Shak. Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. --Shak. His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance. --Milton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. --Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. --Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. --Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. --Longfellow. (c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements. As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. --L'Estrange. (d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent. Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson). (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons. Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a command or exhortation. [bd]Up, and let us be going.[b8] --Judg. xix. 28. Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double. --Wordsworth. {It is all up with him}, it is all over with him; he is lost. {The time is up}, the allotted time is past. {To be up in}, to be informed about; to be versed in. [bd]Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago.[b8] --H. Spencer. {To be up to}. (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. [Colloq.] (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to. [Colloq.] {To blow up}. (a) To inflate; to distend. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] {To bring up}. See under {Bring}, v. t. {To come up with}. See under {Come}, v. i. {To cut up}. See under {Cut}, v. t. & i. {To draw up}. See under {Draw}, v. t. {To grow up}, to grow to maturity. {Up anchor} (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor. {Up and down}. (a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to another. See under {Down}, adv. Fortune . . . led him up and down. --Chaucer. (b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut. --Totten. {Up helm} (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel. {Up to snuff}. See under {Snuff}. [Slang] {What is up?} What is going on? [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Up \Up\, prep. 1. From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of. In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs. --Bacon. 2. From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson. 3. Upon. [Obs.] [bd]Up pain of death.[b8] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Up \Up\, n. The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs. [Colloq.] {Ups and downs}, alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.] They had their ups and downs of fortune. --Thackeray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Up \Up\, a. Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dig \Dig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dug}or {Digged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Digging}. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see {Dike}, {Ditch}); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [?][?][?].] 1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Be first to dig the ground. --Dryden. 2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold. 3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well. 4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.] You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To dig down}, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. {To dig from}, {out of}, {out}, [or] {up}, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. {To dig in}, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drink \Drink\, v. t. 1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. --Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. --Thackeray. 2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. And let the purple violets drink the stream. --Dryden. 3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. To drink the cooler air, --Tennyson. My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance. --Shak. Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. --Pope. 4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.] And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. --Taylor (1630.) {To drink down}, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. --Shak. {To drink in}, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. [bd]Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle.[b8] --J. C. Shairp. {To drink off} [or] {up}, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. {To drink the health of}, [or] {To drink to the health of}, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
up adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up." Oppose {down}. 2. `bring up': vt. To create a working version and start it. "They brought up a down system." 3. `come up' vi. To become ready for production use.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
up Working, in order. E.g. "The down escalator is up." Opposite: {down}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-06)