Get Up

Definition: Get Up

Get Up

Verb

1. Rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded".

2. Get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night".

3. Raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load".

4. Cause to rise; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M.".

5. Develop, as of an appetite.

6. Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party".

7. Arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office".

8. Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Engineering & Technology

Literature

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GET UP

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Synonyms: Get Up

Activity

Look sharp; have all one's eyes about one; (vigilance); rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity; lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains; (exert oneself); do wonders, work wonders.

Ascent

Verb: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.

Elevation

Stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Falsehood

Invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance; (imagine); cry "wolf!'

Learning

Acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote.

Preparation

Verb: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in order; (arrange); forecast; (plan) prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone; (begin).

Crosswords: Get Up

Don't you dare try to stop me this time, Smee, try to stop me. Smee, you'd better get up off your ass (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;)

You take your little sensitive ass up there and let me in. Get out of the way! Don't make me get up out of this truck (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

If he gets up, we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes)

Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Get up. Move faster (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham and John Watson.)

I'm trying to get up that great big hill of hope (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

Just get up on the dance floor (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men)

So I got to get up and go (Cruel Summer; performing artist: Bananarama)

If you show me how to get up off the ground (Lay Your Hands On Me; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

But I get up again (Tubthumping; performing artist: Chumbawamba)

Life lesson: Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. (references; author: unknown)

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1932)

Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1926)

Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone: Get Up and Get Started (2001)

Get Up Stand Up Comedy (2001)

Stand Up Get Up (1994)

Come On Get Up (performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Get Up, Stand Up (performing artist: Steve Marriott)

Gotta Get Up (performing artist: Nilsson)

GET UP AND BOOGIE (performing artist: SILVER CONVENTION)

Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over) (performing artist: Technotronic)

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Books

• Get Up and Go!: Time Lines (Mathstart Series) (reference)

• I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! (Beginner Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Leslie Sansone: Walk Away the Pounds - Get Up and Get Started (reference)

• Paula Abdul's Get Up and Dance! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• I'd Start a Revolution If I Could Get Up Morning (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Roy's Dam is in Lagunitas Creek, CA and suffered from a non-functioning fish ladder. Fish were attracted to the current and did not attempt to get up the ladder. Thus, the ladder impaired their spawning migration. This image shows the dam and ladder before restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

That girl would get up every time --. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Then he motioned to him to get up.

They got to get up so much in the night

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Health

When sitting, get up slowly. (references)

You may also get up and move around. (references)

Usually there is only temporary tenderness at the site, and the young person can get up and go immediately afterward. (references)

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Expressions using "get up": get up a hunting party ♦ get up against ♦ get up courage ♦ get up early ♦ get up late ♦ get up steam ♦ get up the better ♦ get up to ♦ get up to mischief ♦ To get up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

styg (accrue, advance, arise, ascend, climb, get, go up, increase, lift, rise), opstaan (arise, ascend, get, go up, lift, rise, stand, stand up). (various references)

Albanian

zgjohem (awake, wake, waken), përgatit (coach, compose, concoct, cook up, dispense, dress, fit, fit up, get, get ready, make, make ready, make up, mix up, mobilize, prepare, produce, qualify, stage-manage, train), ngrihem (ascend, jump, overlook, proceed, raise, regelate, revolt, rise, stand, stand up, stand up to, take off, take wing, tower, turn out, upheave), mënyrë të veshurit, kostum (costume, kit, outfit, rig, suit, thread), etil (ethyl). (various references)

Arabic 

‏من الصعب الوصول له, ‏نهض (arise, arisen, arose, awake, raise, rise, stand up, turn out, uplift), ‏قام (depart, rise, show a leg, stand up), ‏وقف (bait, bristle, carry, cessation, check, come to a halt, devote, discontinuation, disposal, halt, pause, pull up, refraining, rise, severance, stand, stand up, stasis, stood, stoppage, stopping), ‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), ‏تسلق (ascent, climb, creep, get over, mount, mounting, ramble, scale, scaling, scramble, surmount, swarm, swarm up), ‏إنتفض قائما, ‏إنتصب واقفا, ‏إبتكر (break the new, devise, innovate), ‏بكر (first born, intact, live from hand to mouth, maiden, maidenlike, rise early, virgin). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оформление (design, layout, presentation, styling), изправям се (head, right, rise, straighten), изкачвам се (ascend, climb up, go up, make the grade), подготвям (equip, fit, make ready, precede, prelude, prepare, string up, tee up, train, tutor, work up), покачвам се (jump up, move up), поскъпвам (become more expensive, rise in price), дрехи (clothes, clothing, dress, duds, gear, things, toggery, togs), надигам се (arise, blow up, boil up, pull up, rear, rise, simmer, surge, swell, uprise, well up), събуждам (arouse, awake, awaken, call up, challenge, elevate, rouse, shake up, wake, wake up, waken), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), вдигам се (clear away, heave, lift, pick up, rear, revolt, rise), качвам се (board, climb, come up, get on, go up, kite, step on), уча (instruct, learn, lesson, read, school, study, teach, tutor), стани, ставам (arise, become, come, come round, eventuate, fit, get, grow, intervene, occur, pass, proceed, pull up, rise, roll out, run, stand, take place, transpire, turn, turn out, up), премяна (accoutrements, apparel, attire, best bib and tucker, dress, fig, finery, glad rags, livery, one's best tucker, tire). (various references)

Chinese 

起身 (leave; set forth). (various references)

Czech

vstávat (rise). (various references)

Danish

stå op (rise, stand, stand up). (various references)

Dutch

gaan staan (rise, stand, stand up), zich voordoen (attitudinize, pose, put on airs, rise, stand, stand up), wassen (accrue, arise, ascend, bathe, blend, go up, grow, lift, mingle, mix, rise, shuffle, wash), verrýzen (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rise), uit bed komen, stýgen (accrue, advance, arise, ascend, augment, climb, go up, grow, increase, lift, rise), rýzen (accrue, advance, arise, ascend, climb, go up, increase, lift, rise, swell), opstaan (arise, ascend, cook, go up, lift, rise, stand, stand up), opmaak van flessen (bottle dressing, presentation), opkomen (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rise), opgaan (arise, ascend, be valid, go up, lift, rise, tread, walk, walk upon), flessenopmaak (bottle dressing, presentation). (various references)

Esperanto

stariĝi (rise, stand, stand up), leviĝi (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rise), ellitiĝi, ekstari (rise, stand, stand up). (various references)

Faeroese

fara á føtur (rise, stand, stand up). (various references)

Finnish

ulkoasu (appearance), nousta pystyyn (rise, stand up), nousta (arise, get into, increase, rise, stand up, take off). (various references)

French

présentation (get-up), difficile � atteindre, habillage, habillage de bouteille, inventer, lever, débout, préparer (gear, get, get ready), tenue, se lever (get on one's feet), se mettre debout (get on one's feet), se réveiller, se soulever, surgir, sursauter, mise. (various references)

Frisian

stige (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rise). (various references)

German

aufstehen (arise, be open, get down, get off, rise, stand, stand on, stand up, to arise, to arise (arose, to get up, to rise, to stand up, uprise), sich erheben (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rebel, revolt, rise, rise up, soar, to rise, to rise (rose, to soar). (various references)

Greek 

σηκώνω (elevate, heave, heft, hold up, lift, pick up, raise, take up, upraise), σηκώνομαι (arise, rise, stand up), ξυπνώ (awake, awaken, knock up, rouse, wake, wake up), εγείρομαι (arise, arise [arose arisen], rise, rouse oneself, up), ανασηκώνομαι (draw up, sit up). (various references)

Guarani

ko'ê (morning, to get up in the morning). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקום (arise, happen, rise, set upon, stand up, take place), לעמו�" (rise, stand, stop, take place), ל�"תעורר (arise, awake, bestir, stir, wake, waken). (various references)

Hungarian

kikel ágyból, felkel (arise, revolt, to get out of bed, to get up, to leave one's bed, to uprear), feljuttat (to get up), feláll (Marshal, rise, stand, stand up, to erect, to get on one's feet, to get up, to up, to upend, up), öltözet (clothes, clothing, garb, get-up, habiliments, investiture, raiment, rig, rig out, spare suit of clothes, suit, trim), öltözék (accoutrements, clothes, clothing, dress, garment, get-up, guise, habiliments, raiment, toilet, toilette). (various references)

Indonesian

berbangun, berbangkit (break out), beranjak, bangun (afoot, arise, awake, emerge), bangkit (come up, rise, wake, wake up). (various references)

Italian

levarsi (arise, rise, stand up, take off, uprise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

起きる (to get up, to rise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おきあがる (to erect, to get up, to rise), おきる (to get up, to rise), のる (to appear, to be found in, to be in harmony with, to be mentioned in, to be recorded, to be taken in, to board, to feel like doing, to get on, to get up on, to join, to mount, to ride in, to share in, to spread). (various references)

Malay

bangkit (rise, stand, stand up). (various references)

Manx

irree (accrue, ascent; passion, climb, emotion, get off, heave, levee, lift, lilt, rise, stand up, step up, swarm, take off, take off as plane, tip, turn out). (various references)

Mohawk

-tketskwas (to get up). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

tipo e forma dos rótulos (bottle dressing, presentation), surgir (appear, arise, come, come to light, crop out, emerge, issue, lift, occur, pop up, rise), sair da cama (rise), ressuscitar (resurrect, resuscitate, revive, rise, wake), ressurgir (resurge, rise), pôr-se de pé (stagemanage, stand), levantar-se (arise, rise, rising, set out, stagemanage, stand, stand up, upheave), levantar‐se (arise, ascend, lift, rise), erguer-se (arise, rise), elevar (advance, aggrandize, elate, elevate, enhance, erect, heave, heighten, increase, lever, lift, make, mount, prefer, pump up, raise, rise, set up, stand up, up, uplift), desúbitopôr‐sedepé (rise), apresentação das garrafas (bottle dressing, presentation), apresentação (cover page, exhibit, exhibition, gig, introduction, lodgement, lodgment, presentation, presentment, production, putting, submission). (various references)

Romanian

se ridica (amount, arise, come up, crest, flush, heave, lift, Mount, rise, shoot up, stand, uprise), scula (arouse, awaken, call, instrument, raise, rise, rout out, wake), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), råsåri (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rise), pune la punct (adjust, dispose, do, regularize), pregãti (coach, compose, concoct, cook, do, dress, fit, lay out, make, make ready, prepare, prime, put in, train, tutor), nãscoci (concoct, contrive, cook, devise, discover, fabricate, feign, forge, frame, fudge, invent, make up, manufacture, shape, spin out, start, trump up). (various references)

Russian 

костюм (costume, dress, ensemble, garb, suit, the outer man), встать, вставать (emerge, rise, stand up), внешний вид (appearance, face, faзade, form, superficies, the outer man), взбираться (climb, get on, swarm up), общая структура (crude structure), одежда (aparel, apparel, clobber, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, garments, maternity clothes, raggery, raiment, rig, rigging, the outward man, tog, toggery, togs, turn out, undercoat, vestment, wear), манера одеваться, постановка (setting), подниматься (ascend, climb, come up for air, lift, picked up, raise, rise, risen, run up to, swell, up, upheave). (various references)

Scottish

éirich (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

režija (direction, getup, management). (various references)

Spanish

levantarse (arise, break up, getup, lift, pant, pick oneself up, raise, raise oneself, rise, run high, set in, stand, stand up, tip up, tumble out, turn out, uprise), subir (advance, arise, ascend, bump up, carry up, climb, come up, get into, go up, lift, move up, raise, rise, step up, take up, upload, walk up). (various references)

Swedish

stiga upp (emerge, rise), resa sig (pick oneself up, rear up, rebel, rise, stand up, tower). (various references)

Turkish

giyinip süslenmek (doll out, doll up), yataktan kalkmak (get out af the bed, show a leg, turn out), yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming), sıralama (alignment, arrangement, collocation, course, placement, processing, putting in order), kalkmak (arise, get a hard on, have a hard on, leave, lift, lift off, pull, pull away, pull away from the kerb, rise, stand on, stand up, stand upon, start, straighten, straighten up, take off), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), kıyafet (apparel, attire, caparison, costume, dress, garb, habiliments, habit, livery, togs, turnout, vesture), dekor (adornment, décor, scene, scenery, setting), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up), düzen (arrangement, array, contexture, convention, coordination, cosmos, disposal, disposition, formation, harmony, layout, make up, method, order, orderliness, regime, regularity, regulation, right, scheme, system, trim), dış görünüş (appearance, color, colour, disguise, externals, façade, fashion, guise, rind, semblance, shape, shell, superficies, surface, the outer man, varnish). (various references)

Turkmen 

turuzmak (make stand, wake someone, waken), durmak (be still, stand). (various references)

Ukrainian

сходити (alight, arise, ascend, descend, dismount, get off, rise, slough off, swarm up, uprise, walk down), вставати (arise, rise, stand up, uprise), вставай, влаштовувати (do, establish, plant), но (gee), посилюватися (aggrandize, heighten, intensify, sharpen, tone up). (various references)

Welsh

codi (accrue, amount, arise, erect, lift, raise, rise). (various references)

Yucatec

liik'il (arise, ascend, go up, lift, rise). (various references)

Zulu

-sukuma (rise, stand, stand up). (various references)

scandens. (various references)

astandan. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: getup.

-2 letters: get, gut, peg, pet, pug, put, teg, tug, tup.

-3 letters: et, pe, up, ut.

+1 letter: getups.

+2 letters: gluepot, pungent, upstage.

+3 letters: deputing, erupting, gluepots, gulpiest, pudgiest, puggiest, reputing, stumpage, upgather, upstaged, upstages.

+4 letters: expurgate, glumpiest, grumpiest, guidepost, multipage, pasturage, permuting, pterygium, pungently, purgative, puttering, repugnant, stumpages, upgathers, uplighted, uprighted, upsetting, uptearing.

+5 letters: antiplague, bethumping, centupling, depurating, deputizing, expurgated, expurgates, expurgator, grapefruit, guideposts, intergroup, outkeeping, outleaping, outweeping, outyelping, parqueting, pasturages, peculating, perturbing, plateauing, plummeting, precutting, preuniting, promulgate, pterygiums, purgatives, putrefying, septupling, sextupling, spittlebug, splurgiest, sputtering, stupefying, superagent, supergiant, superlight, supertight, suspecting, trumpeting, unpregnant, unstepping, upgathered, upstepping.