GO UP


Meaning of GO UP in English

go up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ go )

1 . INCREASE to increase in price, amount, level etc:

Train fares have gone up.

Blood-sugar levels go up as you digest food.

go up by 10%/250/£900 etc

Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million.

go up from something to something

Spending on research went up from $426 million to $461 million.

2 . BUILDING/SIGN if a building or sign goes up, it is built or fixed into place:

It was a lovely place before all these new houses went up.

3 . EXPLODE/BURN to explode, or be destroyed in a fire:

He had left the gas on and the whole kitchen went up.

The whole building went up in flames.

⇨ go up in smoke at ↑ smoke 1 (3)

4 . SHOUT if a shout or a ↑ cheer goes up, people start to shout or ↑ cheer

go up from

A great cheer went up from the audience.

5 . TO ANOTHER PLACE British English to go from one place to another, especially to a place that is further north, or to a town or city from a smaller place

go up to

We’re going up to Scotland next weekend.

He went up to the farm to get some eggs.

6 . LIGHTS if lights go up, they become brighter:

when the lights went up at the end of the performance

7 . UNIVERSITY British English formal old-fashioned to begin studying at a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge University

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.