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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: u. of s. afr. - upbrake</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="uofsafr"> U. of S. Afr.,<DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) Union of South Africa. </DL> <A NAME="uomouniversale"> uomo universale,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) universal man. </DL> <A NAME="up"> up, adverb, preposition, adjective, noun, verb, upped, upping.<DL COMPACT><DD>adv. 1. from a lower to a higher place or condition; to, toward, or near the top. Ex. The bird flew up. <DD> 2. in a higher place or condition; on or at a higher level. Ex. We stayed up in the mountains several days. <DD> 3. from a smaller to a larger amount. Ex. Prices have gone up. <DD> 4. to or at any point, place, or condition that is considered higher. Ex. He lives up north. <DD> 5. above the horizon. Ex. The sun came up. <DD> 6. in or into an erect position. Ex. Stand up. <DD> 7. out of bed. Ex. Please get up before you are too late. <DD> 8. thoroughly; completely; entirely. Ex. The house burned up. <DD> 9. at an end; over. Ex. Your time is up now. <DD> 10. in action or into being. Ex. Don't stir up trouble. <DD> 11. together. Ex. Add these up. <DD> 12. to or in an even position; not behind. Ex. to catch up in a race. Keep up with the times. <DD> 13. in or into view, notice, or consideration. Ex. to bring up a new topic. <DD> 14. in or into a state as of tightness. Ex. Shut the bird up in his cage. <DD> 15. into storage or a safe place; aside; by. Ex. Squirrels lay up nuts for the winter. <DD> 16. at bat in baseball. Ex. He went up four times in the game. <DD> 17. apiece; for each one. Ex. The score at the half was ten up. <DD>prep. 1. to a higher place on or at a higher place in. Ex. The cat ran up the tree. <DD> 2. to, toward, or near the top of. Ex. They climbed up a hill. <DD> 3. along; through. Ex. She walked up the street. <DD> 4. toward or in the inner or upper part of. Ex. We sailed up the river. He lives up state. <DD>adj. 1. advanced; forward. <DD> 2. going or pointed upward. Ex. an up trend. <DD> 3. above the ground or horizon. Ex. The sun is up. The wheat is up. <DD> 4. out of bed. Ex. On Christmas morning the children were up at dawn. <DD> 5. to or in an even position; not behind. <DD> 6. near; close. <DD> 7. with much knowledge or skill. <DD> 8. at bat in baseball. Ex. He was up four times in the game. <DD> 9. ahead of an opponent by a certain number. Ex. We are three games up. <DD>noun 1. an upward movement, course, or slope. <DD> 2. a piece of good luck. <DD> 3. (U.S. Slang.) upper (def. 3). <DD>v.t. to put up. Ex. They upped the price of eggs. expr. on the up and up, <DD> a. (Informal.) increasing; rising; improving. Ex. Attendances and sales at recent exhibitions of the Royal Academy have been on the up and up (London Times). <DD> b. (Slang.) honest; legitimate. Ex. "All my books are open and on the up and up," he declared (New York Times). expr. up against, (Informal.) facing as a thing to be dealt with. Ex. First, we are up against a dynamic opponent whose strident anti-Americanism will not soon die away (New Yorker). expr. up and doing, busy; active. Ex. If the Labor party's supporters had been up and doing, the party's losses would not have been so great (New York Times). expr. up and down, here and there; at various points; in many or different places throughout an area. Ex. There are many fine examples of reinforced concrete storage bunkers up and down the country (London Times). expr. up for, <DD> a. a candidate for. Ex. to be up for senator, be up for reelection. <DD> b. on trial in a court of law for. Ex. He is up for robbery. expr. up to, <DD> a. as far or as high as. Ex. up to one's elbows in work. <DD> b. till; until. Ex. up to the present day. <DD> c. reaching the limit of; fulfilling. Ex. work not up to expectations. <DD> d. doing; about to do. Ex. She is up to some mischief. This may be true of Cage's trick, for it loses its point once we know what he is up to (New Yorker). <DD> e. equal to; capable of doing. Ex. up to a task. Do you feel up to going out so soon after being sick? <DD> f. plotting; scheming. Ex. What are you up to? <DD> g. before (a person) as a duty or task to be done. Ex. [The President] hasn't yet shown public concern about the dispute, but ultimately it may be up to him to determine the Government's policy (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="up"> up-, prefix.<DL COMPACT><DD> up, as in upland, upkeep, uphold, upstart, upbeat, uplifted, upstanding, uprising. </DL> <A NAME="up"> up.,<DL COMPACT><DD> upper. </DL> <A NAME="up"> u.p.,<DL COMPACT><DD> under proof. </DL> <A NAME="up"> UP (no periods) or U.P.,<DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) United Press. Now, UPI (no periods). </DL> <A NAME="up"> U.P.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Union Pacific Railroad. </DL> <A NAME="upanchor"> up-anchor, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to weigh or heave up the anchor. Ex. Once the cargo is on board the captain will up-anchor (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="upandcomer"> up-and-comer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an up-and-coming person or thing. Ex. The very best of the Beatles' music was an expression of sheer delight at being a tightly-knit group of attractive young up-and-comers (Sunday Times). </DL> <A NAME="upandcoming"> up-and-coming, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. on the way to prominence or success; promising; active; alert; enterprising. Ex. an up-and-coming singer or politician, a small but up-and-coming college. One reason up-and-coming riders are scarce is that the big stables aren't trying to develop them any more (New Yorker). <DD> 2. gaining or rising in importance. Ex. These three aluminum applications are among the more unusual of the jobs lately undertaken by this up-and-coming metal (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="upanddown"> up-and-down, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. occurring alternately upward and downward. Ex. The flapping of an insect's wings is no mere up-and-down motion (Scientific American). <DD> b. alternately rising and falling; presenting variations comparable to movement up and down. Ex. The upsurge in farmer benefits will be temporary ... since an up-and-down trend appears every time the act is extended to a new group (Wall Street Journal). <DD> 2. perpendicular; erect. Ex. up-and-down stripes. </DL> <A NAME="upanishad"> Upanishad, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of ancient Sanskrit Vedic philosophical commentaries. </DL> <A NAME="uparticle"> U particle,<DL COMPACT><DD> an elementary particle belonging to the same class as the electron and mu-meson, but having a mass twice as great as that of proton; a heavy lepton. Ex. Among the exotic new particles found in collisions of electrons and positrons are the U particles ..., heavy members of the lepton family (Science News). </DL> <A NAME="upas"> upas, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a large, tropical Asian tree of the mulberry family, whose poisonous milky sap is used in making a poison for arrows. <DD> 2. the sap itself. <DD> 3. a climbing plant of Java, a variety of strychnos, whose poisonous sap is also used in making a poison for arrows. <DD> 4. its sap. </DL> <A NAME="upbear"> upbear, transitive verb, -bore, -borne, -bearing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bear up; raise aloft; support; sustain. Ex. When other actors faltered ... Julie upbore them (Time). noun upbearer. </DL> <A NAME="upbeat"> upbeat, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. (Music.) <DD> a. an unaccented beat in a measure, especially one preceding a downbeat. Ex. [He] began with the upbeat, an open-string quarter-note G, and I recognized the dearly familiar beginning of Opus 18, No. 4 (New Yorker). <DD> b. the upward gesture of the conductor's hand to indicate this beat. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) an upswing; upturn; revival. Ex. The economy lags behind last autumn's boom--but it's on the upbeat (Wall Street Journal). <DD>adj. 1. upward; rising. Ex. an upbeat cycle, an upbeat mood. <DD> 2. (Informal, Figurative.) hopeful; optimistic; buoyant. Ex. a motion picture with an upbeat ending. </DL> <A NAME="upbind"> upbind, transitive verb, -bound, -binding.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bind up. </DL> <A NAME="upblaze"> upblaze, intransitive verb, -blazed, -blazing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to blaze up; shoot up, as a flame. </DL> <A NAME="upblown"> upblown, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> blown up; inflated; puffed up. </DL> <A NAME="upbore"> upbore, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense of upbear. </DL> <A NAME="upborne"> upborne, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. borne up; raised aloft; supported. <DD>verb the past participle of upbear. </DL> <A NAME="upbound"> upbound (1), adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> upward bound; in an upward direction. </DL> <A NAME="upbound"> upbound (2), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of upbind. </DL> <A NAME="upbow"> up-bow, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a stroke toward the handle or lower end of the bow in playing a violin, cello, or the like. </DL> <A NAME="upbraid"> upbraid, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to find fault with; blame; reprove. Ex. to upbraid a person for his errors. The captain upbraided the guards for falling asleep. (SYN) reproach, censure. noun upbraider. </DL> <A NAME="upbraiding"> upbraiding, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a severe reproof; scolding. <DD>adj. full of reproach; reproving. adv. upbraidingly. </DL> <A NAME="upbrake"> upbrake, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a past tense of upbreak. </DL> <A HREF="upbreak.dic">NEXT</A>