upgrade
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (verb) IPA(key): /əpˈɡɹeɪd/, /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
[edit]upgrade (plural upgrades)
- An upward grade or slope.
- 1931, Journal of the Outdoor Life[1], volume 28, page 303:
- The Worthens sighed with relief as the engine began its night of upgrade chugging.
- An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
- An improvement.
- Antonyms: downgrade, step back
- The remarried couples among my friends often joke that their divorce and remarriage amounted to an upgrade.
- 2022 January 12, “Network News: Portsmouth line upgrade set to begin”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:
- "When we're finished in 2024, this upgrade programme will provide a much-improved railway between London Waterloo and Portsmouth," said NR's Wessex Route Director Mark Killick.
Translations
[edit]an improved component or replacement item
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[edit]References
[edit]Verb
[edit]upgrade (third-person singular simple present upgrades, present participle upgrading, simple past and past participle upgraded)
- (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
- Antonym: downgrade
- When you upgrade your standard of living, you become addicted to that standard of living.
- (transitive) To replace with something better.
- Antonym: downgrade
- I had to upgrade my anti-virus software to protect my computer from the newer threats.
- (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
- Antonym: downgrade
- They upgraded him to the latest model.
- They were upgraded to first class.
- 2014, Sid Davis, A Survival Guide for Buying a Home - Page 80[2]:
- From the builder's standpoint, the name of the game is to upgrade you to the maximum you can qualify for.
- 2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15:
- Calls at Cardiff Parkway are proposed once this station opens, with investment promised to upgrade station facilities at Severn Tunnel Junction.
- 2022 December 14, “Network News: Fawley branch line reopening supported by 80% of locals”, in RAIL, number 972, page 20:
- Several level crossings would have to be upgraded, with the existing track re-laid to allow a line speed of 60mph.
- (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
- Antonym: downgrade
- She upgraded to a more successful husband.
- (intransitive, transitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.
- She waited a long time to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, hoping the worst bugs would be worked out before she took the plunge.
- She waited a long time to upgrade Windows, hoping the worst bugs would be worked out before she took the plunge.
Translations
[edit]to improve
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to replace an existing object with something better
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to replace a program with a later version of itself
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]upgrade (not comparable)
- Up a slope or grade.
- 1955, Carl Sandburg, Prairie-town boy[3], page 173:
- Men fell out, worn-out, and there were sunstroke cases. It was an eight-mile march upgrade.
- 2009, Craig Sanders, Canton Area Railroads[4], page 66:
- Northbound trains originating near the Ohio River faced a 26-mile climb upgrade to Flushing.
- 2010, Elliott Merrick, True North: A Journey Into Unexplored Wilderness[5], page 167:
- From there it was an eight-mile pull upgrade to the mountain top.
- 2013, Marty Metras, Walking the Walk, Camino de Santiago 2012[6], page 16:
- I did that and saw we had to go upgrade a long ways.
- 2020 December 16, David Clough, “Class 37s at 60: the great survivors”, in Rail, page 55, photo caption:
- [...] 37905 hauls the 1,400-tonne 0730 Mossend-Margam upgrade from Shrewsbury, mainly at 1-in-100, through Church Stretton at around 25mph on May 13 1989.
Further reading
[edit]- “upgrade”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “upgrade”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]upgrade
- inflection of upgraden:
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English upgrade.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]upgrade m inan
- (colloquial, computer science) upgrade (modernisation of technology)
- Synonym: aktualizacja
Declension
[edit]Declension of upgrade
singular | plural | |
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nominative | upgrade | upgrade'y |
genitive | upgrade'u | upgrade'ów |
dative | upgrade'owi | upgrade'om |
accusative | upgrade | upgrade'y |
instrumental | upgrade'em | upgrade'ami |
locative | upgradzie | upgrade'ach |
vocative | upgrade | upgrade'y |
Related terms
[edit]adjective
verb
- upgradować impf
Further reading
[edit]- upgrade in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English upgrade.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]upgrade m (plural upgrades)
- (colloquial) an upgrade
References
[edit]- "Upgrade" in Dicionário Informal
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