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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
up
adv
  1. 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
  2. to a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume"
    Antonym(s): down
  3. nearer to the speaker; "he walked up and grabbed my lapels"
  4. to a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation"
    Antonym(s): down
  5. to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
    Synonym(s): up, upwards, upward
adj
  1. 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
  2. out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning"
    Synonym(s): astir(p), up(p)
  3. getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"
    Synonym(s): improving, up
  4. extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"
    Synonym(s): up(a), upward(a)
  5. (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game"
  6. open; "the windows are up"
  7. (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"
  8. used up; "time is up"
v
  1. 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)
  
  
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