uplevel
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uplevel (not comparable)
- (marketing) Having greater capabilities or a higher version number.
- From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
- 1991, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Space Cops: Mindblast, page 67:
- Every now and then we have to smoke some of them out when they get too close to the uplevel neighborhoods.
- 2005, Linnea Sinclair, Gabriel's Ghost:
- We hit another dead end, the uplevel ladder far to our right this time.”
- 2012, Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I - Jedi Twilight, page 27:
- His chrono told him that it was 0342, but that was uplevel time,...
- 2013, Steve Perry, The Vastalimi Gambit, page 43:
- Regular Army didn't have much use for private military, but fuck 'em—he had enough of that organization when they had set his unit up for a snafu not their fault. The uplevel dicks had pissed on a bunch of good officers to make sure nobody came after their guilty asses.
Antonyms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]uplevel (not comparable)
- From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
- 1999, Kathy Tyers, Firebird, page 91:
- You're to be allowed uplevel."
- 2005, Linnea Sinclair, Gabriel's Ghost:
- We found the first ladder, went uplevel.
- 2005, Linnea Sinclair, An Accidental Goddess:
- A flash of bright yellow and blue hurtled quickly uplevel through the atrium's center.
Verb
[edit]uplevel (third-person singular simple present uplevels, present participle (US) upleveling or uplevelling, simple past and past participle (US) upleveled or uplevelled)
- (transitive) To raise the level of.
- 1986, Ken Keyes, A conscious person's guide to relationships, page 59:
- The human alternative is to use this emotional energy to uplevel addictions to preferences.
- 2005, Brian Ruhe, Freeing the Buddha:
- This is to help spread Buddhism and uplevel comic book readers to put down the comic books and reach upwards towards the meditation cushion.
- 2009, M. Diane Vogt, Preparing for Reentry:
- When I begin planning something new or desire to uplevel my game, I eschew unworkable ideas and unproven theories.