(up) adverb
1. Toward a higher place or level: opposed to down.
2. In or on a higher place; above the horizon.
3. Toward that which is figuratively or conventionally higher: a To or at a higher price: Barley is up. b To or at a higher rank: people who have come up in the world. c To or at a greater size or larger amount: to swell up. d To or at a higher musical pitch. e To or at a place that is locally or arbitrarily regarded as higher: up north.
4. To a vertical position; standing; on one's feet.
5. Risen from bed.
6. So as to be level (to) or even (with) in space, time, degree, or amount: up to date; up to the brim.
7. In or into commotion or activity; in progress: They were stirred up to mutiny; to be up in arms.
8. Into existence: to draw up a document; to turn up.
9. In or into prominence; under consideration: The question was up for debate.
10. Into or in a place of safekeeping; aside: Fruits are put up in glass jars.
11. At an end or close: Your time is up.
12. Completely; wholly: Houses were burned up; The brooks dried up.
13. In baseball and cricket, at bat: He made but one hit in three times up.
14. In tennis and other sports: a In the lead; ahead: said of a player or team. b Apiece; alike: said of a score.
15. Bound for: said of a ship: up for Panama.
16. Running for as a candidate: Jones is up for mayor.
17. On trial before a magistrate: up for manslaughter.
18. Naut. Shifted to windward, as a tiller.
—all up with At an end for; no further hope for.
—to be up against Colloq. To meet with; be face to face with.
—to be up against it Colloq. To be in difficulty; have financial trouble.
—to be up to
1. Colloq. To be doing or plotting; be about to do: What is he up to?
2. To be equal to; to be capable of: I'm not up to moving all this furniture today.
3. To be incumbent upon; be dependent upon: It's up to him to save us.
—adjective
1. Moving, sloping, or directed upward or in a direction arbitrarily regarded as upward.
2. At stake, as in gambling: to have money up on a horse race.
3. Colloq. Going on; taking place: What's up?
4. Colloq. In a state acquainted (with), equal (to), or a match (for); of a kind or character capable (of): He is up in that subject.
5. In golf: a In advance of the opponent or opponents: with a number indicating the extent (in holes) of such advance: three up and four to play: opposed to down. b Struck so as to travel as far as or beyond the hole: said of the ball.
6. Rising, risen, overflowing, or at flood: The moon is up; The river is up.
—up and around Colloq. Sufficiently recovered to walk, as following an illness or injury; on one's feet again; convalescent and ambulatory.
—up to no good Engaged in or contemplating some mischief or improper act.
—prep.
1. From a lower to a higher point or place of, on, or along; toward a higher condition or rank on or in: up the social ladder.
2. To or at a point farther above or along: The farm is up the road.
3. From the coast toward the interior of (a country, as being higher); from the mouth toward the source of (a river): to sail up a river.
4. At, on, or near the height or top of: said of position or situation.
—noun One who or that which is up, as elevated ground, an ascent or upward movement, state of prosperity, etc.: usually plural.
—ups and downs Changes of fortune or circumstance.
—v. upped, up·ping Colloq. v.t.
1. To increase; make larger; cause to rise.
2. To put or take up.
—v.i.
3. To rise. [OE]

As an element in solidemes up has adverbial force with various meanings, as in the following examples:
1. To a higher place or level:

2. To a greater size or larger amount:

5. Completely; wholly: