'The time is up' definitions:
Definition of 'The time is up'
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- Up \Up\ ([u^]p), adv. [AS. up, upp, [=u]p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. [=u]p, OHG. [=u]f, G. auf, Icel. & Sw. upp, Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See Over.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down. [1913 Webster]
- But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically: [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster]
- But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. --Num. xiv. 44. [1913 Webster]
- I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. --Ps. lxxxviii. 15. [1913 Webster]
- Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster]
- And when the sun was up, they were scorched. --Matt. xiii. 6. [1913 Webster]
- Those that were up themselves kept others low. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Helen was up -- was she? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster]
- As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson). [1913 Webster] (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] (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. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew 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. [1913 Webster] (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] [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'The time is up'
- At times,
- In time,
- Time,
- Timed,
- Timeful,
- Timely,
- Times,
- Timing,
- What time,
- What time as,
- against time,
- all the time,
- at a time,
- at the same time,
- do time,
- for the time being,
- from time to time,
- in no time,
- just in time,
- of all time,
- on time,
- time and again,
- time and time again,
- time being,
- time off,
- time out,
- Absolute time,
- Apparent time,
- Astronomical time,
- Benting time,
- Breathing time,
- Civil time,
- Close time,
- Cockshut time,
- Common time,
- Compound time,
- Cooling time,
- Double time,
- Equation of time,
- Equinoctial time,
- Father Time,
- Fence time,
- Half time,
- High time,
- In good time,
- Kipper time,
- Mean time,
- Pairing time,
- Psychophysical time,
- Pudding time,
- Quadruple time,
- Quick time,
- Quintuple time,
- Reaction time,
- Sideral time,
- Sidereal time,
- Solar time,
- Standard time,
- Time ball,
- Time bargain,
- Time bill,
- Time book,
- Time detector,
- Time enough,
- Time fuse,
- Time fuze,
- Time immemorial,
- Time lock,
- Time of day,
- Time out of mind,
- Time policy,
- Time signature,
- Time, IL,
- To beat time,
- To come to time,
- To give time,
- To go against time,
- To kill time,
- To make time,
- To mark time,
- To move against time,
- To redeem the time,
- To run against time,
- To serve the time,
- Tracts for the Times,
- Triple time,
- True time,
- Vintage time,
- a hundred times,
- a million times,
- access time,
- ahead of its time,
- ahead of time,
- all-time,
- arrival time,
- at one time,
- atlantic time,
- behind time,
- bering time,
- big time,
- biological time,
- breakfast time,
- buy time,
- central time,
- checkout time,
- clock time,
- closing time,
- clotting time,
- compensatory time,
- cosmic time,
- departure time,
- duple time,
- eastern time,
- elapsed time,
- ephemeris time,
- extra time,
- face time,
- flex time,
- for the first time,
- four times,
- free time,
- full time,
- geologic time,
- geological time,
- good time,
- good times,
- greenwich time,
- hadean time,
- hard time,
- hard times,
- harvest time,
- have a good time,
- hawaii time,
- haying time,
- in due time,
- in the nick of time,
- kill time,
- lead time,
- leisure time,
- light time,
- local time,
- long time,
- mark time,
- modern times,
- morning time,
- mountain time,
- musical time,
- nine times,
- old times,
- one at a time,
- one time,
- pacific time,
- part time,
- past times,
- period of time,
- physiological time,
- point in time,
- present times,
- prime time,
- processing time,
- question time,
- ravages of time,
- real time,
- regulation time,
- relaxation time,
- residence time,
- response time,
- roman times,
- running time,
- seek time,
- serve time,
- show time,
- six times,
- slow time,
- small time,
- space time,
- spare time,
- starting time,
- take time,
- take time off,
- terrestrial time,
- thousand times,
- three times,
- time and a half,
- time bomb,
- time capsule,
- time clock,
- time constant,
- time deposit,
- time draft,
- time exposure,
- time frame,
- time interval,
- time lag,
- time limit,
- time loan,
- time machine,
- time note,
- time of arrival,
- time of departure,
- time of life,
- time of origin,
- time of year,
- time period,
- time plan,
- time saving,
- time scale,
- time series,
- time sharing,
- time sheet,
- time signal,
- time slot,
- time study,
- time to come,
- time unit,
- time value,
- time zone,
- time-out,
- times square,
- times table,
- transmission time,
- travel time,
- turnaround time,
- two time,
- two times,
- unit of time,
- universal time,
- waste of time,
- waste time,
- well timed,
- when the time comes,
- while away the time,
- work time,
- yukon time,
- Ill-timed,
- Time-honored,
- Time-table,
- To give the time of day,
- To take time by the forelock,
- Watchman's time detector,
- Wrong-timed,
- alaska standard time,
- atlantic standard time,
- bering standard time,
- big time operator,
- central standard time,
- coordinated universal time,
- eastern standard time,
- extended time scale,
- fast time scale,
- full-time,
- good-time,
- greenwich mean time,
- half-time,
- hawaii standard time,
- life-time,
- lunar time period,
- mean solar time,
- mountain standard time,
- musical time signature,
- old-time,
- one-time,
- pacific standard time,
- part-time,
- pulse timing circuit,
- real-time,
- run-time,
- slow time scale,
- small-time,
- space-time,
- spacecraft clock time,
- spacecraft event time,
- take time by the forelock,
- terrestrial dynamical time,
- time and motion study,
- time deposit account,
- time-ball,
- time-consuming,
- time-fuse,
- time-honoured,
- time-release,
- time-switch,
- time-tested,
- time-worn,
- two-time,
- two-timing,
- waste one's time,
- well-timed,
- Periodic time of a heavenly body,
- character-at-a-time printer,
- command processing overhead time,
- daylight-saving time,
- daylight-savings time,
- earth-received time,
- four-four time,
- line-at-a-time printer,
- old-time quaint,
- page-at-a-time printer,
- pulse-time modulation,
- real-time operation,
- real-time processing,
- run-time error,
- since a long time ago,
- space-time continuum,
- spare-time activity,
- time-and-motion study,
- time-motion study,
- time-scale factor,
- one-way light time,
- round-trip light time,
- time-delay measuring instrument,
- time-delay measuring system,
- track-to-track seek time