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The correct spelling is up.
How to pronounce up
/ap/
nounIPA: /ap/
Say it like: Up
The correct spelling is up. The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. For example: "Up is a good way to go."
Usage Examples
“Up is a good way to go.”
“I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.”
“She lives in a two-up two-down.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- 2.A positive thing.
- 3.An upstairs room of a two story house.
verb
- 1.To increase or raise.
- 2.To promote.
- 3.(usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly.
- 4.To ascend; to climb up.
- 5.To upload.
adjective
- 1.Facing upwards.
- 2.On or at a physically higher level.
- 3.Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
- 4.Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- 5.Aloft.
adverb
- 1.Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- 2.To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- 3.To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- 4.To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- 5.(intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
preposition
- 1.Toward the top of.
- 2.Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- 3.From south to north of.
- 4.Further along (in any direction).
- 5.From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
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