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Updrafts
- noun - a strong upward air current
Upgrades
- noun - a reservation that is improved; "I got an upgrade to first class when coach class was full"
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
- get better travel conditions; "I upgraded to First Class when Coach Class was overbooked"
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
- give better travel conditions to; "The airline upgraded me when I arrived late and Coach Class was full"
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- rate higher; raise in value or esteem
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components); "the power plant received a new upgrade"
Upheaves
- verb - lift forcefully from beneath
Upraises
- verb - cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
Uprights
- noun - a piano with a vertical sounding board
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"
Upsilons
- noun - the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet
Upstages
- noun - move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
- steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"
- the rear part of the stage
- treat snobbishly, put in one's place
Upstairs
- adjective - on a floor above; "they lived upstairs"
- on or of upper floors of a building; "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room"
- the part of a building above the ground floor; "no one was allowed to see the upstairs"
- with respect to the mind; "she's a bit weak upstairs"
Upstarts
- noun - 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
- a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- an arrogant or presumptuous person