upwards adv

1 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" [syn: up, upward, upwardly] [ant: down, down, down, down]

2 to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up, upward]

English

Etymology

From up(p)weardes.

Adverb

1. Towards a higher place; towards what is above.
2. To a higher figure or amount.
3. Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
4. Backwards in time, into the past.
5. To or into later life.

Up may refer to:

• A relative direction, the opposite of down
• Experiencing the effects of psychoactive drugs
• At bat, in baseball, when a player is facing the pitcher
• On-line, in computing, the state of being available for use and functioning normally
• Up quark, a particle described by the Standard Model theory of physics
• Up! (film), a 1976 soft core sex comedy
• Up (1984 film), a short film
• Up (2009 film), an upcoming film by Pixar Animation Studios
• A railroad direction in the United Kingdom and China
• The Volkswagen up! concept car

Initialisms

Music

• Up! (album) by Shania Twain
  • "Up!" (song) from the above album
• Up (Great Big Sea album)
• Up (Peter Gabriel album)
• Up (R.E.M. album)
• Up (Right Said Fred album)

Companies

• Union Pacific Railroad, a US railroad network
• United Press International, a press agency
• Bahamasair, IATA airline designator

Science and technology

• μp, an abbreviation for microprocessor (where the "u" is actually "μ", the lowercase Greek letter mu, meaning "micro-")
• Unified Process, an iterative software development process
• UP (complexity), Unambiguous Non-deterministic Polynomial-time

Computing

• Unified Process, a popular software development process framework

Politics

• Patriotic Union, a political party of Colombia
• Unia Pracy (Labor Union), a political party of Poland
• Unity Party, the name of political parties in several countries
• United Party, the name of political parties in several countries

Education

• Universidade Pedagógica, in Mozambique
• University of Pennsylvania, in the United States
• University of Portland, in the United States
• Univerzita Palackého, in the Czech Republic
• Universidad Panamericana, in Mexico
• University of Patras, in Greece
• University of the Philippines, in the Philippines
• University of Porto, in Portugal
• University of Pretoria, in South Africa
• A University Press at any major university

Geography

• Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the United States
• Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state

See also

• Upward