Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 30
Upspear (v. i.) To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass. [R.] -- Cowper.
Upspring (v. i.) To spring up. -- Tennyson.
Upspring (n.) An upstart. [Obs.] "The swaggering upspring." -- Shak.
Upspring (n.) A spring or leap into the air. [R.] -- Chapman.
Upspurner (n.) A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] -- Joye.
Upstairs (adv.) Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
Upstairs (a.) Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.
Upstairs (adv.) On a floor above; "they lived upstairs" [syn: upstairs, up the stairs, on a higher floor] [ant: below, down the stairs, downstairs, on a lower floor].
Upstairs (adv.) With respect to the mind; "she's a bit weak upstairs".
Upstairs (a.) On or of upper floors of a building; "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room" [syn: upstairs, upstair] [ant: downstair, downstairs].
Upstairs (n.) The part of a building above the ground floor; "no one was allowed to see the upstairs".
Upstand (v. i.) To stand up; to be erected; to rise. -- Spenser. Milton.
At once upstood the monarch, and upstood The wise Ulysses. -- Cowper.
Upstare (v. i.) To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests." -- Spenser.
Upstart (v. i.) To start or
spring up suddenly. -- Spenser. Tennyson.
Upstart (n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to
wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu. --Bacon.
Upstart (n.) (Bot.) The meadow saffron. -- Dr. Prior.
Upstart (a.) Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence. "A race of upstart creatures." -- Milton.
Upstart (a.) Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position [syn: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a)].
Upstart (n.) An arrogant or presumptuous person.
Upstart (n.) A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class [syn: upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche, arriviste].
Upstart (n.) A gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright [syn: kip, upstart].
Upstay (v. t.) To sustain; to support. [Obs.] "His massy spear upstayed." -- Milton.
Upsterte () imp. & p. p. of Upstart.
Upstir (n.) Insurrection; commotion; disturbance. [Obs.] -- Sir J. Cheke.
Upstream (adv.) Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
Upstream (adv.) Toward the source or against the current [syn: upriver, upstream] [ant: downriver, downstream].
Upstream (a.) In the direction against a stream's current [ant: downstream].
Upstream (a.) [Common] Towards the original author(s) or maintainer(s) of a project. Used in connection with software that is distributed both in its original source form and in derived, adapted versions through a distribution (like the Debian version of Linux or one of the BSD ports) that has component maintainers for each of their parts. When a component maintainer receives a bug report or patch, he may choose to retain the patch as a porting tweak to the distribution's derivative of the project, or to pass it upstream to the project's maintainer. The antonym downstream is rare.
Upstream
Downstream
Fewer network hops away from a backbone or hub. For example, a small ISP that connects to the Internet through a larger ISP that has their own connection to the backbone is downstream from the larger ISP, and the larger ISP is upstream from the smaller ISP.
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Upstreet (adv.) Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. -- G. W. Gable.
Upstroke (n.) An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made.
Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. -- Mrs. Browning.
Upstroke (n.) A stroke normally made in an upward direction.
Upsun (n.) (Scots Law) The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.
Upswarm (v. i. & i.) To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. [R.] -- Shak. Cowper.
Upsway (v. t.) To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.
Upsyturvy (adv.) Upside down; topsy-turvy. [Obs.] -- Robert Greene.
Uptails all () An old game at cards. [Obs.]
Uptails all () Revelers; roysterers. [Obs.] -- Decker.
Uptails all () Revelry; confusion; frolic. [Obs.] -- Herrick.
Uptake (v. t.) To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] -- Wyclif. Spenser.
Uptake (n.) (Steam Boilers) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
Uptake (n.) (Steam Boilers) Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Uptake (n.) The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake].
Uptake (n.) A process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids".
Uptear (v. t.) To tear up. -- Milton.
Upthrow (v. t.) To throw up. -- Drayton.
Upthrow (n.) (Mining) See Throw, n., 9.
Upthrow (n.) (Geology) A rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) [syn: upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust].
Upthunder (v. i.) To send up a noise like thunder. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Uptie (v. t.) To tie up. -- Spenser.
Uptill (prep.) To; against. [Obs. & R.]
She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast uptill a thorn. -- Shak.
Uptown (adv.) To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [Colloq. U. S.]
Uptown (a.) Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society. [Colloq. U. S.]
Uptown (adv.) Toward or in the upper part of town [ant: downtown].
Uptown (a.) Of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas" [ant: downtown].
Uptown (n.) A residential part of town away from the central commercial district.
Uptrace (v. t.) To trace up or out.
Uptrain (v. t.) To train up; to educate. [Obs.] "Daughters which were well uptrained." -- Spenser.
Up-train () A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus. [Eng.]
Up-train () A train going in the direction conventionally called up. [U. S.]
Upturn (v. t.) To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces." -- D. Webster.
So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. -- Milton.
Upturn (n.)
An upward movement or trend as in business activity.
Upupa (n.) (Zool.) A genus of birds which includes
the common hoopoe.
Upupa (n.) Type genus of the Upupidae [syn: Upupa, genus Upupa].
Upwaft (v. t.) To waft upward. -- Cowper. Upward
Upward (adv.) Alt. of Upwards.
Upwards (adv.) In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. -- I. Watts.
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. -- Hooker.
Upwards (adv.) In the upper parts; above.
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. -- Milton.
Upwards (adv.) Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
From twenty years old and upward. -- Num. i. 3.
Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.
I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. -- Shak.
Upward (a.) Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
Upward (n.) The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
From the extremest upward of thy head. -- Shak.
Upward (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].
Upward (adv.) To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards, upward].
Upward (a.) Directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen".
Upward (a.) Extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: up(a), upward(a)].
Upwhirl (v. t. & i.) To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.
Upwind (v. t.) To wind up. -- Spenser.
Up-wind (adv.) Against the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is blowing.
Upwind (a.) Being or moving in the direction from which the wind is blowing.
Upwind (adv.) Toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn: leeward, upwind] [ant: downwind, windward].
Upwind (adv.) In the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: upwind, against the wind, into the wind] [ant: downwind].
Upwind (a.) Towards the side exposed to wind [syn: upwind, weather(a)].
Upwreath (v. i.) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. -- Longfellow.
Upyat () imp. of Upgive. -- Chaucer.
Ur
Ur (n.) Alt. of Ure
Ure (n.) (Zool.) The urus.
Urus (n.) [L.; of Teutonic origin. See Aurochs.] (Zool.) A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal ({Bos urus or Bos primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur.
Ur (n.) An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
Ur, () Light, or the moon city, a city "of the Chaldees," the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28,31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as the centre of political power. It stood near the mouth of the Euphrates, on its western bank, and is represented by the mounds (of bricks cemented by bitumen) of el-Mugheir, i.e., "the bitumined," or "the town of bitumen," now 150 miles from the sea and some 6 miles from the Euphrates, a little above the point where it receives the Shat el-Hie, an affluent from the Tigris. It was formerly a maritime city, as the waters of the Persian Gulf reached thus far inland. Ur was the port of Babylonia, whence trade was carried on with the dwellers on the gulf, and with the distant countries of India, Ethiopia, and Egypt. It was abandoned about B.C. 500, but long continued, like Erech, to be a great sacred cemetery city, as is evident from the number of tombs found there. (See ABRAHAM.)
The oldest king of Ur known to us is Ur-Ba'u (servant of the goddess Ba'u), as Hommel reads the name, or Ur-Gur, as others read it. He lived some twenty-eight hundred years B.C., and took part in building the famous temple of the moon-god Sin in Ur itself. The illustration here given represents his cuneiform inscription, written in the Sumerian language, and stamped upon every brick of the temple in Ur. It reads: "Ur-Ba'u, king of Ur, who built the temple of the moon-god." "Ur was consecrated to the worship of Sin, the Babylonian moon-god. It shared this honour, however, with another city, and this city was Haran, or Harran. Harran was in Mesopotamia, and took its name from the highroad which led through it from the east to the west. The name is Babylonian, and bears witness to its having been founded by a Babylonian king. The same witness is still more decisively borne by the worship paid in it to the Babylonian moon-god and by its ancient temple of Sin. Indeed, the temple of the moon-god at Harran was perhaps even more famous in the Assyrian and Babylonian world than the temple of the moon-god at Ur. "Between Ur and Harran there must, consequently, have been a close connection in early times, the record of which has not yet been recovered. It may be that Harran owed its foundation to a king of Ur; at any rate the two cities were bound together by the worship of the same deity, the closest and most enduring bond of union that existed in the ancient world. That Terah should have migrated from Ur to Harran, therefore, ceases to be extraordinary. If he left Ur at all, it was the most natural place to which to go. It was like passing from one court of a temple into another. "Such a remarkable coincidence between the Biblical narrative and the evidence of archaeological research cannot be the result of chance. The narrative must be historical; no writer of late date, even if he were a Babylonian, could have invented a story so exactly in accordance with what we now know to have been the truth. For a story of the kind to have been the invention of Palestinian tradition is equally impossible. To the unprejudiced mind there is no escape from the conclusion that the history of the migration of Terah from Ur to Harran is founded on fact" (Sayce).
Ur, fire, light, a valley
Urachus (n.) (Anat.) A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.
Uraemia (n.) (Med.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.
Uraemia (n.) Accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine [syn:
uremia, uraemia, azotemia, azotaemia].
Uraemic (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions.
Uraemic (a.) Of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) [syn: azotemic, uremic, uraemic].
Uraeum (n.) (Zool.) The posterior half of an animal.
Ural (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.
Turanian (pr. a.) [From Tur, the name, in Persian legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom sprang the races of mankind.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and in Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
Ural-Altaic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
Ural-Altaic (n.) A (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian).
Urali (n.) See Curare. Uralian
Uralian (a.) Alt. of Uralic.
Uralic (a.) Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.
Uralite (n.) (Min.) Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.
Uralitization (n.) (Geol.) The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.
Murexan (n.) [From Murexide.] (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.
Uramil (n.) (Chem.) Murexan.
Uranate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of uranic acid.
Urania (n.) (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
Urania (n.) (Zool.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
Urania (n.) (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
Urania (n.) Goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite [syn: Venus, Urania].
Urania, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana
Population (2000): 700
Housing Units (2000): 311
Land area (2000): 1.242133 sq. miles (3.217109 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.010917 sq. miles (0.028276 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.253050 sq. miles (3.245385 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77490
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 31.862835 N, 92.291261 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Urania, LA
Urania
Uranian (a.) (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.
Uranic (a.) Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
On I know not what telluric or uranic principles. -- Carlyle.
Uranic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.
Fluorescein, Fluoresceine, Fluorescein (n.) (Chem.) A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.
Syn: fluorescein, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein.
Uranin (n.) (Chem.) An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.
Uraninite (n.) (Min.) A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.
Uraninite (n.) A mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore [syn: uraninite, pitchblende].
Uraniscoplasty (n.) (Surg.) The process of forming an artificial palate. Uraniscoraphy
Uraniscoraphy (n.) Alt. of Uraniscorrhaphy.
Uraniscorrhaphy (n.) (Surg.) Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
Uranite (n.) (Min.) A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.
Uranitic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to uranium; containing uranium.
Uranium (n.) (Chem.) 【化】鈾 [U] An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.
Note: Uranium was discovered in the state of an oxide by Klaproth in 1789, and so named in honor of Herschel's discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781. Uran-ocher
Uranium (n.) A heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons [syn: uranium, U, atomic number 92].
Uranium
Symbol: U
Atomic number: 92
Atomic weight: (231)
White radioactive metallic element belonging to the actinoids.
Three natural isotopes, U-238, U-235 and U-234. Uranium-235 is used as the fuel for nuclear reactors and weapons. Discovered by Martin H. Klaproth in 1789.
Uran-ocher (n.) Alt. of Uran-ochre
Uran-ochre (n.) (Min.) A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure. Uranographic
Uranographic (a.) Alt. of Uranographical
Uranographical (a.) Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an uranographic treatise.
Uranographist (n.) One practiced in uranography.
Uranography (n.) A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
Uranolite (n.) A meteorite or aerolite. [Obs.] --Hutton.
Uranology (n.) A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.
Uranology (n.) The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole [syn: astronomy, uranology].
Uranometria (n.) [NL.] A uranometry.
Uranometry (n.) (Astron.) A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.
Uranoplasty (n.) (Surg.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
Uranoplasty (n.) Surgical correction of a defect of the palate.
Uranoscopy (n.) Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.
Uranoso- (a.) (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.
Uranous (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.
Uranus (n.) (Gr. Myth.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
Uranus (n.) (Astron.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
Note: This planet has also been called Herschel, from Sir William Herschel, who discovered it in 1781, and who named it Georgium Sidus, in honor of George III., then King of England.
Uranus (n.) (Greek mythology) God of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology [syn: Ouranos, Uranus].
Uranus (n.) A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites; "Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781".
Uranus, () Hideyuki Nakashima , 1993. A logic-based knowledge representation language. An extension of Prolog written in Common Lisp, with Lisp-like syntax. Extends Prolog with a multiple world mechanism, plus term descriptions to provide functional programming.
Uran-utan () (Zool.) The orang-utang