RUN UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run up mean? 

• RUN UP (verb)
  The verb RUN UP has 5 senses:

1. pile up (debts or scores)

2. raise

3. fasten by sewing; do needlework

4. accumulate as a debt

5. make by sewing together quickly

  Familiarity information: RUN UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pile up (debts or scores)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Raise

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

hoist; run up

Context example:

hoist a sail

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fasten by sewing; do needlework

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

run up; sew; sew together; stitch

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

"Run up" entails doing...:

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run up"):

hem (fold over and sew together to provide with a hem)

resew (sew again)

overcast (sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next)

overcast (sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches)

backstitch (do backstitches)

gather; pucker; tuck (draw together into folds or puckers)

finedraw (sew together very finely)

fell (sew a seam by folding the edges)

baste; tack (sew together loosely, with large stitches)

hemstitch (sew with hemstitches)

retick; tick (sew)

cast on (make the first row of stitches when knitting)

cast off (make the last row of stitches when knitting)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Accumulate as a debt

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

chalk up; run up

Context example:

he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

owe (be obliged to pay or repay)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make by sewing together quickly

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

run up a skirt

Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):

sew; tailor; tailor-make (create (clothes) with cloth)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

They run up the cape

 Context examples 

In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You never run up and down stairs for me, all day long.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There the news must follow him, but who was to tell it? not I. I would as soon have been run up to the yard-arm.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Now take a run up with the glasses and raise some of the boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, climbing on the roof, he had with his own hand bent and run up the colours.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She doesn't know her mind a bit; she seems to see the storm coming, but can't decide whether to run up north in the open, or to put in here.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king’s soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don’t let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Oh, quite enough, cried Mr. Yates, with only just a side wing or two run up, doors in flat, and three or four scenes to be let down; nothing more would be necessary on such a plan as this.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And just then I could not hear any more, for my cousin called from below to tell me Mrs. Richardson was come in her coach, and would take one of us to Kensington Gardens; so I was forced to go into the room and interrupt them, to ask Lucy if she would like to go, but she did not care to leave Edward; so I just run up stairs and put on a pair of silk stockings and came off with the Richardsons.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You’d better run up and loosen the topsails.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)