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What should be the correct spelling of the word up, what does it mean? What is the etymological origin of this word? In this content, you can find some sample sentences, idioms and proverbs that contain the word up.

This word consists of 2 letters and is spelled as "U-P". It has 1 vowel and 1 consonant.

How do you spell up

Typo fix for "up"

up

adverb

How to pronunciation up: ˈəp

What does Up Mean?

What does up meaning in English

1. Aloft; on high; not down. From those two Mytilene brethren, admire the wonderful changes of worldly things, now up now down, as if the life of man were not of much more certainty than a stage play. Knolles’s Hist. of the Turks. Thither his course he bends; but up or down, By center, or eccentrick, hard to tell, Or longitude. Milton.
   
2. Out of bed; in the state of being risen from rest. Helen was not up? was she? Shakespeare. His chamber being commonly stived with suiters, when he was up, he gave his legs, arms, and breast to his servants to dress him; his eyes to his letters, and ears to petitioners. Wotton.
   
3. In the state of being risen from a seat. Upon his first rising, a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison.

Other definitions for up

The definition of 'up' is: in or into a higher position or level; especially : away from the center of the earth

How to spell up

Want to know how to spell up, you will find a comprehensive answer on this topic. The word "up consists of 1 syllables and is spelled "ˈəp".

Synonyms for up:

There are synonyms for up'. Depending on the situation and context, the following words are also often used instead of up:

upward, upwardly, aloft

Some words similar to "up"

• incorruption
• behauptet
• supercilious
• tupaan
• superfluousness
• uplands
• stupidly
• puppetshow
• hauptstadt
• unscrupulous

The word "up" in works of art

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Middlemarch / George Eliot

Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

Donnie Darko / Richard Kelly

What family doesn't have its ups and downs?

The Lion in Winter / James Goldman

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!

The Twilight Zone / Rod Serling

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes

Ayesha: If she was not all-powerful, why did she set up to be? And if she was, why did she not have her will of Leo without any difficulty? I cannot understand it.

She: A History of Adventure / H. Rider Haggard

You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw

Men, I can deal with. They're stupid. Women are tricky.

Lysistrata / Aristophanes

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Macbeth / William Shakespeare

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

The Master of Petersburg / J.M. Coetzee

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How many points in scrabble for up

How many points is the word "up" in Scrabble? Is "up" a Scrabble word? Here is the letter-by-letter scoring of the Scrabble game, which is played all over the world in different languages and with different words.

The total scrabble score for the word up is 4

Using Articles in English

English has two types of articles: "a/an" and "the." "A/an" is used for indefinite nouns, which means that you are referring to any member of a group. "The" is used for definite nouns, which means that you are referring to a specific thing or person. For example, you would say "I saw a dog on the street" to refer to any dog, but "I saw the dog on the street" to refer to a particular dog that you and the listener both know. Using articles correctly is important to convey meaning accurately.