Up (James Morrison song) definition

(1) Open

"The windows are up"

(2) Getting higher or more vigorous

"Its an up market"

"An improving economy"

(3) Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

"The anchor is up"

"The sun is up"

"He lay face up"

"He is up by a pawn"

"The market is up"

"The corn is up"

(4) Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position

"Look up!"

"The music surged up"

"The fragments flew upwards"

"Prices soared upwards"

"Upwardly mobile"

(5) To a later time

"They moved the meeting date up"

"From childhood upward"

(6) To a more central or a more northerly place

"Was transferred up to headquarters"

"Up to Canada for a vacation"

(7) Nearer to the speaker

"He walked up and grabbed my lapels"

(8) To a higher intensity

"He turned up the volume"

(9) Raise

"Up the ante"