How to pronounce up:
Example: "The anchor is up"
Example: "Look up!"
Example: "He walked up and grabbed my lapels"
Example: "Was transferred up to headquarters"
Example: "The up staircase"
Example: "He was up on his homework"
Example: "The windows are up"
Example: "How soon will the computers be up?"
Example: "Time is up"
Example: "Up the ante"
The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
Example: "Up is a good way to go."
A positive thing.
Example: "I hate almost everything about my job. the only up is that it's so close to home."
An upstairs room of a two story house.
Example: "She lives in a two-up two-down."
Toward the top of.
Example: "The cat climbed up the tree."
Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
Example: "I felt something crawling up my arm."
From south to north of.
Example: "We sailed up the east coast of england from ipswich to south shields."
Further along (in any direction).
Example: "Go up the street until you see the sign."
From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
Example: "He led an expedition up the amazon."
Of a man: having sex with.
Example: "Phwoar, look at that bird. i'd love to be up her."
At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
Example: "I'll see you later up the snooker club."