slovodefinícia
up and down
(encz)
up and down, adv:
Up and down
(gcide)
Up \Up\ ([u^]p), adv. [AS. up, upp, [=u]p; akin to OFries. up,
op, D. op, OS. [=u]p, OHG. [=u]f, G. auf, Icel. & Sw. upp,
Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See Over.]
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1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of
gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above;
-- the opposite of down.
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But up or down,
By center or eccentric, hard to tell. --Milton.
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2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically:
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(a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or
figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting
position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a
river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from
concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or
the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or
implied.
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But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop.
--Num. xiv.
44.
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I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth
up. --Ps.
lxxxviii. 15.
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Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer.
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We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of
Christian indifference. --Atterbury.
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(b) In a higher place or position, literally or
figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an
upright, or nearly upright, position; standing;
mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation,
prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement,
insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest,
situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a
hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.
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And when the sun was up, they were scorched.
--Matt. xiii.
6.
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Those that were up themselves kept others low.
--Spenser.
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Helen was up -- was she? --Shak.
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Rebels there are up,
And put the Englishmen unto the sword. --Shak.
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His name was up through all the adjoining
provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring
to see who he was that could withstand so many
years the Roman puissance. --Milton.
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Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms.
--Dryden.
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Grief and passion are like floods raised in
little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly
up. --Dryden.
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A general whisper ran among the country people,
that Sir Roger was up. --Addison.
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Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate. --Longfellow.
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(c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not
short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or
the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be
up to the chin in water; to come up with one's
companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to
engagements.
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As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox
to him. --L'Estrange.
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(d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly;
quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to
burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the
mouth; to sew up a rent.
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Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to
spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson).
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(e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches;
put up your weapons.
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Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc.,
expressing a command or exhortation. "Up, and let us be
going." --Judg. xix. 28.
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Up, up, my friend! and quit your books,
Or surely you 'll grow double. --Wordsworth.
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It is all up with him, it is all over with him; he is lost.


The time is up, the allotted time is past.

To be up in, to be informed about; to be versed in.
"Anxious that their sons should be well up in the
superstitions of two thousand years ago." --H. Spencer.

To be up to.
(a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the
business, or the emergency. [Colloq.]
(b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing
ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to.
[Colloq.]

To blow up.
(a) To inflate; to distend.
(b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath.
(c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up.
(d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang]

To bring up. See under Bring, v. t.

To come up with. See under Come, v. i.

To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i.

To draw up. See under Draw, v. t.

To grow up, to grow to maturity.

Up anchor (Naut.), the order to man the windlass
preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

Up and down.
(a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to
another. See under Down, adv.

Fortune . . . led him up and down. --Chaucer.
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(b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable
when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse
hole, and the cable is taut. --Totten.

Up helm (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward
the upper, or windward, side of a vessel.

Up to snuff. See under Snuff. [Slang]

What is up? What is going on? [Slang]
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Up and down
(gcide)
Down \Down\, adv. [For older adown, AS. ad[=u]n, ad[=u]ne,
prop., from or off the hill. See 3d Down, and cf. Adown,
and cf. Adown.]
1. In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the
earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; --
the opposite of up.
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2. Hence, in many derived uses, as:
(a) From a higher to a lower position, literally or
figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top
of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground
or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition;
as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and
the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs
indicating motion.
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It will be rain to-night. Let it come down.
--Shak.
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I sit me down beside the hazel grove.
--Tennyson.
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And that drags down his life. --Tennyson.
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There is not a more melancholy object in the
learned world than a man who has written himself
down. --Addison.
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The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone]
the English. --Shak.
(b) In a low or the lowest position, literally or
figuratively; at the bottom of a descent; below the
horizon; on the ground; in a condition of humility,
dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
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I was down and out of breath. --Shak.
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The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
--Shak.
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He that is down needs fear no fall. --Bunyan.
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3. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
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Venerable men! you have come down to us from a
former generation. --D. Webster.
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4. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a
thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in
making decoctions. --Arbuthnot.
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Note: Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go
down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul
down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or
exclamation.

Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke.
--Shak.
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If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone
will down. --Locke.
Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down;
to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down.

The temple of Her[`e] at Argos was burnt down.
--Jowett
(Thucyd.).
Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a
conventional sense; as, down East.

Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and
those in the provinces, up to London.
--Stormonth.
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Down helm (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm
to leeward.

Down on or Down upon (joined with a verb indicating
motion, as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea
of threatening power.
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Come down upon us with a mighty power. --Shak.

Down with, take down, throw down, put down; -- used in
energetic command, often by people aroused in crowds,
referring to people, laws, buildings, etc.; as, down with
the king! "Down with the palace; fire it." --Dryden.

To be down on, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.]


To cry down. See under Cry, v. t.

To cut down. See under Cut, v. t.

Up and down, with rising and falling motion; to and fro;
hither and thither; everywhere. "Let them wander up and
down." --Ps. lix. 15.
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up and down
(wn)
up and down
adv 1: moving backward and forward along a given course; "he
walked up and down the locker room"; "all up and down the
Eastern seaboard"
2: alternately upward and downward; "he eyed him up and down"
podobné slovodefinícia
jumping up and down
(encz)
jumping up and down, n:
look someone up and down
(encz)
look someone up and down,
To beat up and down
(gcide)
Beat \Beat\, v. i.
1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock
vigorously or loudly.
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The men of the city . . . beat at the door.
--Judges. xix.
22.
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2. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron.
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3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force;
to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.
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Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden.
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They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.
--Longfellow.
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The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he
fainted, and wished in himself to die. --Jonah iv.
8.
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Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.
--Bacon.
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4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic]
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To still my beating mind. --Shak.
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5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a
zigzag line or traverse.
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6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
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7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the
drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
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8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid
alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to
produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones,
or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
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A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking
in order to make progress.

To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means
or ways. --Addison.

To beat about the bush, to approach a subject circuitously.


To beat up and down (Hunting), to run first one way and
then another; -- said of a stag.

To beat up for recruits, to go diligently about in order to
get helpers or participators in an enterprise.

To beat the rap, to be acquitted of an accusation; --
especially, by some sly or deceptive means, rather than to
be proven innocent.
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Up and down
(gcide)
Up \Up\ ([u^]p), adv. [AS. up, upp, [=u]p; akin to OFries. up,
op, D. op, OS. [=u]p, OHG. [=u]f, G. auf, Icel. & Sw. upp,
Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See Over.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of
gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above;
-- the opposite of down.
[1913 Webster]

But up or down,
By center or eccentric, hard to tell. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or
figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting
position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a
river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from
concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or
the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or
implied.
[1913 Webster]

But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop.
--Num. xiv.
44.
[1913 Webster]

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth
up. --Ps.
lxxxviii. 15.
[1913 Webster]

Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of
Christian indifference. --Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
(b) In a higher place or position, literally or
figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an
upright, or nearly upright, position; standing;
mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation,
prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement,
insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest,
situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a
hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.
[1913 Webster]

And when the sun was up, they were scorched.
--Matt. xiii.
6.
[1913 Webster]

Those that were up themselves kept others low.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster]

Helen was up -- was she? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Rebels there are up,
And put the Englishmen unto the sword. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

His name was up through all the adjoining
provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring
to see who he was that could withstand so many
years the Roman puissance. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Grief and passion are like floods raised in
little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly
up. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

A general whisper ran among the country people,
that Sir Roger was up. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate. --Longfellow.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not
short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or
the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be
up to the chin in water; to come up with one's
companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to
engagements.
[1913 Webster]

As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox
to him. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly;
quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to
burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the
mouth; to sew up a rent.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to
spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson).
[1913 Webster]
(e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches;
put up your weapons.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc.,
expressing a command or exhortation. "Up, and let us be
going." --Judg. xix. 28.
[1913 Webster]

Up, up, my friend! and quit your books,
Or surely you 'll grow double. --Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

It is all up with him, it is all over with him; he is lost.


The time is up, the allotted time is past.

To be up in, to be informed about; to be versed in.
"Anxious that their sons should be well up in the
superstitions of two thousand years ago." --H. Spencer.

To be up to.
(a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the
business, or the emergency. [Colloq.]
(b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing
ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to.
[Colloq.]

To blow up.
(a) To inflate; to distend.
(b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath.
(c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up.
(d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang]

To bring up. See under Bring, v. t.

To come up with. See under Come, v. i.

To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i.

To draw up. See under Draw, v. t.

To grow up, to grow to maturity.

Up anchor (Naut.), the order to man the windlass
preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

Up and down.
(a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to
another. See under Down, adv.

Fortune . . . led him up and down. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable
when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse
hole, and the cable is taut. --Totten.

Up helm (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward
the upper, or windward, side of a vessel.

Up to snuff. See under Snuff. [Slang]

What is up? What is going on? [Slang]
[1913 Webster]Down \Down\, adv. [For older adown, AS. ad[=u]n, ad[=u]ne,
prop., from or off the hill. See 3d Down, and cf. Adown,
and cf. Adown.]
1. In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the
earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; --
the opposite of up.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, in many derived uses, as:
(a) From a higher to a lower position, literally or
figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top
of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground
or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition;
as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and
the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs
indicating motion.
[1913 Webster]

It will be rain to-night. Let it come down.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I sit me down beside the hazel grove.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

And that drags down his life. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

There is not a more melancholy object in the
learned world than a man who has written himself
down. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]

The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone]
the English. --Shak.
(b) In a low or the lowest position, literally or
figuratively; at the bottom of a descent; below the
horizon; on the ground; in a condition of humility,
dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
[1913 Webster]

I was down and out of breath. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

He that is down needs fear no fall. --Bunyan.
[1913 Webster]

3. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
[1913 Webster]

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a
former generation. --D. Webster.
[1913 Webster]

4. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a
thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in
making decoctions. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go
down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul
down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or
exclamation.

Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone
will down. --Locke.
Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down;
to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down.

The temple of Her[`e] at Argos was burnt down.
--Jowett
(Thucyd.).
Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a
conventional sense; as, down East.

Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and
those in the provinces, up to London.
--Stormonth.
[1913 Webster]

Down helm (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm
to leeward.

Down on or Down upon (joined with a verb indicating
motion, as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea
of threatening power.
[1913 Webster]

Come down upon us with a mighty power. --Shak.

Down with, take down, throw down, put down; -- used in
energetic command, often by people aroused in crowds,
referring to people, laws, buildings, etc.; as, down with
the king! "Down with the palace; fire it." --Dryden.

To be down on, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.]


To cry down. See under Cry, v. t.

To cut down. See under Cut, v. t.

Up and down, with rising and falling motion; to and fro;
hither and thither; everywhere. "Let them wander up and
down." --Ps. lix. 15.
[1913 Webster]
jumping up and down
(wn)
jumping up and down
n 1: jumping in one spot (as in excitement); "the wailing and
jumping up and down exhausted him"

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