swell vs up

swell

verb
  • To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate. 

  • To be elated; to rise arrogantly. 

  • To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant. 

  • To protuberate; to bulge out. 

  • To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness. 

  • To grow gradually in force or loudness. 

  • To be raised to arrogance. 

  • To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. 

  • To cause to become bigger. 

adv
  • Very well. 

noun
  • A hillock or similar raised area of terrain. 

  • The act of swelling; increase in size. 

  • The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end. 

  • An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle. 

  • A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division. 

  • A person of high social standing; an important person. 

  • Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. 

  • A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ. 

  • A bulge or protuberance. 

  • A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased. 

  • A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo. 

up

verb
  • To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and. 

  • To upload. 

  • To physically raise or lift. 

  • To increase the level or amount of. 

  • To promote. 

noun
  • The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. 

  • An up quark. 

  • An upstairs room of a two story house. 

  • A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well. 

adv
  • Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. 

  • Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use. 

  • Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change. 

  • To or from one's possession or consideration. 

  • To or at a physically higher or more elevated position. 

  • Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely. 

  • To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with. 

  • Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero. 

  • In a positive vertical direction. 

  • North. 

  • Against the wind or current. 

  • To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. 

  • Without additional ice. 

  • Relatively close to the batsman. 

adj
  • Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair. 

  • Traveling towards a major terminus. 

  • At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge). 

  • Aloft. 

  • Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc. 

  • Functional; working. 

  • Raised; lifted. 

  • Above the horizon, in the sky. 

  • well-known; renowned 

  • Awake and out of bed. 

  • Willing; ready. 

  • Indicating a larger or higher quantity. 

  • Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up). 

  • Finished, to an end 

  • On or at a physically higher level. 

  • Chilled and served without ice. 

  • Erect. 

  • Ahead; leading; winning. 

  • Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with. 

  • Facing upwards. 

  • Well-informed; current. 

  • In a good mood. 

  • Built, constructed. 

  • Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling. 

  • Available to view or use; made public; posted. 

  • Riding the horse; mounted. 

  • Standing; upright. 

  • Next in a sequence. 

prep
  • From south to north of. 

  • At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location). 

  • From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway). 

  • Further along (in any direction). 

  • Of a man: having sex with. 

  • Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached. 

  • Toward the top of. 

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