| | The meaning of UP! lolPage 1 of 1 | Lovers of the English language will enjoy this...
It is an example of why people learning English have so much trouble. Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language.
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This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word,and that word is
'UP.'
It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election. Why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car. At other times this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses...
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special!
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about the word UP !
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary..
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the earth soaks it UP. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on & on, but I'll wrap this UP for now because my time is UP!
Oh...
one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?
UP !
Don't mess UP. Send this on to everyone you look UP in your address book... It's UP to you!
Now I think I'll shut UP. Whew!!!
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Posted: 7/16/2011 9:50:21 PM | that is very interesting let me add a few here
crack up
shoot up
shut up
stick up
roll up
drink up
make-up
tune up
throw up
mop up
order up
ok i give up
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Posted: 7/20/2011 4:03:37 PM | And "bottoms up" to all my friends who live over the big pond.
And since we stole your launguage,hope you wouldn't "give up"on us ,nonetheless... | |
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Posted: 7/21/2011 4:26:58 AM | | This makes that Pixar movie way more complicated, it's messed up | |
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Posted: 7/16/2012 6:36:22 PM | UP is an easy one. Every woman that has ever changed a diaper says........."PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP UUUUUU"
what happened to reading in mirrors anyway. | |
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Posted: 7/18/2012 11:38:55 AM | | Nice! I like this one. I can't uphold your up'd up definition. Maybe im too uptight but am up to keep listenen. | |
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Posted: 7/19/2012 12:21:15 PM | | but..when its up, we are left wondering "what's up?", and its up to all of us to figure out what we're up to as well as others. You're display is very uplifting! but I think you must finish up with what's missing.. no matter what you're up to Jim,..just know I will always be DOWN! ;) (wink, wink) | |
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Posted: 8/4/2012 6:15:45 PM | | To any Michigander, we think of 2 other ways we use it..Up North and the UP-Upper Pennisula. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2012 7:31:35 PM | | Well by doing some word replacement yes UP has a few meaning.....I am a linguist of sorts and see that yes UP has the meaning of being in the sky. But for a lot of the expressions you can take out up and it still has a similar meaning.....it merely is used as an emphasis of sorts. I am also sure that if you looked in a linguistic journal it would explain more to you about how it is used in those phrases. | |
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Posted: 8/4/2012 8:05:24 PM | | I thought of one more use for the word up. When I was talking to someone in California about being from Michigan. She asked me "Do you pick up the house?" It sounded so out of context when she asked me but yeah...we do pick up the house :) | |
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Posted: 8/7/2012 2:12:24 PM | Pick up (man or woman after a night out)
Back up (eg police)
fry up (breakfast)
show up (someone being embarassing
Turn up (at a place or trouser)
Dinner up (dinners ready)
throw up (vomiting)
dig up (dig up)
Mess up (mess up)
I could keep on coming up with these
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man up | |
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