Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 28
Unwitting (a.) 不知情的；不知不覺的；無意的 Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant. -- Un*wit"ting*ly, adv.
Unwitting (a.) Not done with purpose or intent; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked" [syn: unintentional, unplanned, unwitting].
Unwitting (a.) Not aware or knowing; "an unwitting subject in an experiment" [ant: witting].
Unwitting (a.) Unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting" [syn: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting].
Unwoman (v. t.) To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. [R.] -- R. Browning.
Unwonder (v. t.) To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. [R.] -- Fuller.
Unwont (a.) Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed. [Archaic] -- Sir W. Scott.
Unwonted (a.) Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers.
Unwonted (a.) Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." -- Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n.
Unwonted (a.) Out of the ordinary; "an unwonted softness in her face".
Unwork (v. t.) To undo or destroy, as work previously done.
Unworldly, () See worldly.
Unworldly (a.) Not worldly; spiritual; holy. -- Hawthorne. -- Un*world"li*ness, n.
Unworldly (a.) Not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney [ant: secular, temporal, worldly].
Unworldly (a.) Not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman" -- Kate O'Brien [syn: unsophisticated, unworldly].
Unwormed (a.) Not wormed; not having had the worm, or lytta, under the tongue cut out; -- said of a dog.
Unworship (v. t.) To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Unworship (n.) Lack of worship or respect; dishonor. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Unworth (a.) Unworthy. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Unworth (n.) Unworthiness. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Unworthy (a.) 不值得的；不配的；與……不相稱的 [F] [（+of）] [+to-v]；無價值的；拙劣的；卑鄙的；可恥的 [B] Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of. -- Un*wor"thi*ly, adv. -- Un*wor"thi*ness, n.
Unworthy (a.) Lacking in value or merit; "dispel a student whose conduct is deemed unworthy"; "unworthy of forgiveness" [ant: worthy].
Unworthy (a.) Not deserving; "the undeserving poor" [syn: undeserving, unworthy].
Unworthy (a.) Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched].
Unworthiness (n.) [U] 不值得；不相稱；無價值；卑劣 The quality or state of lacking merit or value [ant: worthiness].
Unworthiness (n.) The quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"; "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness" [syn: inappropriateness, unworthiness] [ant: appropriateness].
Unwrap (v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded. -- Chaucer.
Unwrap (v.) Remove the outer cover or wrapping of; "Let's unwrap the gifts!"; "undo the parcel" [syn: unwrap, undo] [ant: wrap, wrap up].
Unwrap (v.) Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out].
Unwray (v. t.) See Unwrie. [Obs.]
Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.
Unwrie (v. t.) To uncover. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Unwrinkle (v. t.) To reduce from a wrinkled state; to smooth.
Unwrite (v. t.) To cancel, as what is written; to erase. -- Milton.
Unwritten (a.) Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.
Unwritten (a.) Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper.
Unwritten doctrines (Theol.), Such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.
Unwritten law. [Cf. L. lex non scripta.] That part of the law of England and of the United States which is not derived from express legislative enactment, or at least from any enactment now extant and in force as such. This law is now generally contained in the reports of judicial decisions. See Common law, under Common.
Unwritten laws, Such laws as have been handed down by tradition or in song. Such were the laws of the early nations of Europe.
Unwritten (a.) Based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times" -- J. L. T. C. Spence [ant: written].
Unwritten (a.) Using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an oral agreement" [syn: oral, unwritten].
Unwritten (a.) Said or done without having been planned or written in advance; "he made a few ad-lib remarks" [syn: ad-lib, spontaneous, unwritten].
Unwroken (a.) Not revenged; unavenged. [Obs.] -- Surrey.
Unyoke (v. t.) To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." -- Shak.
Unyoke (v. t.) To part; to disjoin; to disconnect. -- Shak.
Unyoke (v.) Remove the yoke from; "unyoke the cow" [ant: yoke].
Unyoked (a.) Not yet yoked; not having worn the yoke.
Unyoked (a.) Freed or loosed from a yoke.
Unyoked (a.) Licentious; unrestrained. [R.] -- Shak.
Unyolden (a.) Not yielded. [Obs.] "[By] force . . . is he taken unyolden." -- Sir T. Browne.
Unzoned (a.) Not zoned; not bound with a girdle; as, an unzoned bosom. -- Prior.
Up (adv.) Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down.
But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. -- Milton.
Up (adv.) Hence, in many derived uses, specifically:
Up (adv.) (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.
But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. -- Num. xiv. 44.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. -- Ps. lxxxviii. 15.
Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. -- Chaucer.
We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. -- Atterbury.
Up (adv.) (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.
And when the sun was up, they were scorched. -- Matt. xiii. 6.
Those that were up themselves kept others low. -- Spenser.
Helen was up -- was she? -- Shak.
Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. -- Shak.
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.
Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. -- Dryden.
Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. -- Dryden.
A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. -- Addison.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. -- Longfellow.
Up (adv.) (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.
As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. -- L'Estrange.
Up (adv.) (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.
Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (-- Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (-- B. Jonson).
Up (adv.) (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.
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.
Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double. -- Wordsworth.
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.]
To be up to. (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.
To blow up. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath.
To blow up. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up.
To blow 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.
Up and down. (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]
Up (prep.) From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.
In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs. -- Bacon.
Up (prep.) From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.
Up (prep.) Upon. [Obs.] "Up pain of death." -- Chaucer.
Up (n.) The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs. [Colloq.]
Ups and downs, Alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.]
They had their ups and downs of fortune. -- Thackeray.
Up (a.) Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.
Up (adv.) 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, upwards, upward, upwardly] [ant: down, downward, downwardly, downwards].
Up (adv.) To a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume" [ant: down].
Up (adv.) Nearer to the speaker; "he walked up and grabbed my lapels".
Up (adv.) To a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation" [ant: down].
Up (adv.) To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards, upward].
Up (a.) 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" [ant: down].
Up (a.) Out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning" [syn: astir(p), up(p)].
Up (a.) Getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy" [syn: improving, up].
Up (a.) Extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: up(a), upward(a)].
Up (a.) (Usually followed by `on' or `for') In readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game".
Up (a.) Open; "the windows are up".
Up (a.) (Used of computers) Operating properly; "how soon will the
computers be up?"
Up (a.) Used up; "time is up".
Up (v.) Raise; "up the ante".
UP, () Uni Processor [system]
Up (a.) Working, in order. ?The down escalator is up.? Oppose down.
Up (a.) Bring up: v. t. To create a working version and start it. ? They brought up a down system.?
Up (a.) Come up v. i. To become ready for production use.
Up, () Working, in order. E.g. "The down escalator is up."
Opposite: Down.
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Up (adv.) 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.
Up (adv.) 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.
Up (adv.) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.
Upas (n.) (Bot.) A tree ({Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
Upas (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree ({Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant ({Strychnos Tieute).
Upbar (v. t.) To fasten with a bar. [R.]
Upbar (v. t.) To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Upbear (v. t.) To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. -- Spenser.
One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God. -- Milton.
A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. -- Pope.
Upbind (v. t.) To bind up. [R.] -- Collins.
Upblow (v. t.) To inflate. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Upblow (v. i.) To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Upbraided (imp. & p. p.) of Upbraid.
Upbraiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Upbraid.
Upbraid (v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
And upbraided them with their unbelief. -- Mark xvi. 14.
Vet do not Upbraid us our distress. -- Shak.
Upbraid (v. t.) To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. -- Matt. xi. 20
How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness! -- Sir P. Sidney.
Upbraid (v. t.) To treat with contempt. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Upbraid (v. t.) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Syn: To reproach; blame; censure; condemn.
Upbraid (v. i.) To utter upbraidings. -- Pope.
Upbraid (n.) The act of reproaching; contumely. [Obs.] " Foul upbraid." -- Spenser.
Upbraid (v. t.) To scold or criticize harshly.
Upbraid is from Middle English upbreiden, from Old English upbregdan, "to twist up, hence to reproach," from up-, "up" + bregdan, "to move back and forth; to weave."
Upbraid (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 申斥，責駡，訓斥 To forcefully or angrily tell someone they should not have done a particular thing and criticize them for having done it.
// In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
Upbreak (v. i.) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
Upbreak (n.) A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst. -- Mrs. Browning.
Upbreathe (v. i.) To breathe up or out; to exhale. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." -- Holinshed.
Upbrought (a.) Brought up; educated. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Upburst (n.) The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter.
Upcast (v. t.) To cast or throw up; to turn upward. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Upcast (v. t.) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. [Scot.]
Upcast (a.) Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. --Addison.
Upcast (n.) (Bowling) A cast; a throw. -- Shak.
Upcast (n.) (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.
Upcast (n.) An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.]
Upcast (n.) A taunt; a reproach. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Upcast (n.) Air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine.
Upcaught (a.) Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." -- Cowper.
Upcheer (v. t.) To cheer up. -- Spenser.
Upclimb (v. t. & i.) To climb up; to ascend.
Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. -- Tennyson.
Upcoil (v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.
Upcountry (adv.) In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. [Colloq.]
Upcountry (a.) Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an upcountry residence. [Colloq.]
Upcountry (n.) The interior of the country. [Colloq.]
Upcountry (a.) Of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts" [syn: interior, midland, upcountry].
Upcurl (v. t.) To curl up. [R.] -- Tennyson.
Upcycle (v. t.) (Upcycled, upcycling) 升級再造 To process (used goods or waste material) so as to produce something that is often better than the original.
// I upcycled a stained tablecloth into curtains.
Upcycle (v. i.) (Upcycled, upcycling) To process goods or material in this way.
Upcycle (n.) (Economics) A period or cycle during which business activity is at a high point.
// The whole industry has entered an upcycle.
Upcycle (v.) [ I or T ] 改造；改用 To make new furniture, objects, etc. out of old or used things or waste material.
// The book illustrates how to upcycle by making arts and crafts from everyday items.
Updive (v. i.) To spring upward; to rise. [R.] -- Davies (Microcosmos).
Updraw (v. t.) To draw up. [R.] -- Milton.
Upend (v. t.) To end up; to set on end, as a cask.
Upend (v.) Become turned or set on end; "the airplanes upended"
Upend (v.) Set, turn, or stand on end; "upend the box and empty the contents".
Upeygan (n.) (Zool.) The borele.
Upfill (v. t.) To fill up. [Obs.]
Upflow (v. i.) To flow or stream up. -- Southey.
Upflung (a.) Flung or thrown up.
Upgather (v. t.) To gather up; to contract; to draw together. [Obs.]
Upgaze (v. i.) To gaze upward. -- Byron.
Upgive (v. t.) To give up or out. [Obs.]
Upgrow (v. i.) To grow up. [R.] -- Milton.
Upgrowth (n.) The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. -- J. R. Green.
Upgush (n.) A gushing upward. -- Hawthorne.
Upgush (v. i.) To gush upward.
Uphaf () (Obs.) imp. of Upheave. -- Chaucer.
Uphand (a.) Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge. [R.] -- Moxon.
Uphang (v. t.) To hang up. -- Spenser.
Uphasp (v. t.) To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] -- Stanyhurst.
Upheaped (a.) Piled up; accumulated.
God, which shall repay all with upheaped measure. -- Udall.
Upheaval (n.) The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. --Lubbock.
Upheaval (n.) A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" [syn: turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang].
Upheaval (n.) A violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market" [syn: convulsion, turmoil, upheaval].
Upheaval (n.) (Geology) A rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) [syn: upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust].
Upheaval (n.) Disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo].
Upheave (v. t.) To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise. -- Milton.
Upheave (v.) Lift forcefully from beneath.