put up
To place in a high location.
Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
/ʌp/
noun 6adv 5prep 5adj 5verb 5
Collocations
4ADJ.
crazy, difficult, early, good, late, old, sad, soon
VERB + UP
climbed, come, eyes, give, going, got, grow, hurry
UP + NOUN
conversation, nothing, princeton, things, tree, viagra, villages, wikipedia
PREP.
down, from, in, with
Definitions
adv
1
Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
Shoots grow up and roots grow down.
2
Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
All day we climbed up and up.
Lift the carpet up and look underneath.
3
Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
sit up; stand up; get up out of bed
4
Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.
Turn it up, I can barely hear it.
5
Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
Go back up to the top of the page.
As I lay on my back, a pain shot up from my toes to my chest.
prep
1
Toward the top of.
The cat climbed up the tree.
They walk up the steps.
2
Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
The information made its way up the chain of command to the general.
I felt something crawling up my arm.
3
From south to north of.
We sailed up the East Coast of England from Ipswich to South Shields.
Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
4
Further along (in any direction).
Go up the street until you see the sign.
5
From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
He led an expedition up the Amazon.
adj
1
Facing upwards.
Turn the cloth over so that the patterned side is up.
Suppose that we roll a fair die and flip a fair coin in a game that awards 10 dollars whenever one pip shows on the up face of the die and 2 dollars whenever a head shows on the up side of the coin.
2
On or at a physically higher level.
The flood waters are up again across large areas of the country.
3
Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
Where is the up escalator?
4
Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
All the notices are up now.
The Christmas decorations are up.
5
Available to view or use; made public; posted.
Is your new video up yet? I looked on the website, but I couldn't find it.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
put up with
To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.
I put up with a lot of nonsense, but this is too much.
hold up
To wait or delay.
Hold up a minute. I want to check something.
show up
To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
Please come on time; don't just show up whenever you feel like it.
turn up one's nose
To tilt one's face upwards slightly, thus raising one's nose, and often to look downwards at someone, as a sign of contempt, disgust, or scorn.
When your turn came, you were carefully collared, and led up to the presence, as if even at that awful moment you were mutinously and murderously disposed. The Pasha, looking at yo
Example Bank
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I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
Wiktionary02
Shoots grow up and roots grow down.
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All day we climbed up and up.
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The cat climbed up the tree.
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They walk up the steps.
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Her eyes scanned up and down the page.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, up is marked as figuratively, archaic, poetic, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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