up
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Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.; Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity; To or at a physically higher or more elevated position
Meanings
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Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.; Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity
You have to get up.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
I want to get up.
Tatoeba · deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
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Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.; To or at a physically higher or more elevated position
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Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.; To an upright or erect position
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Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.; To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc
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Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as “up”.; To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higherrare
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Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as “up”.; To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps)rare
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Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as “up”.; Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as ‘up’ by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation changerare
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Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as “up”.; Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zerorare
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Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as “up”.; To university, especially to Cambridge or Oxfordrare
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Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as “up”.; Against the wind or currentrare