Nouns

• tune-up — Noun – English ～ adjustments made to an engine to improve its performance
• tune-up — Noun – English ～ exercising in preparation for strenuous activity
• up-to-dateness — Noun – English ～ the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term"
• up-bow — Noun – English ～ an upward stroke from the tip to the heel of the bow
• up quark — Noun – English ～ a stable quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron
• up-tick — Noun – English ～ a small increase; "the up-tick in terrorist activity"
• trip-up — Noun – English ～ an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
• shape-up — Noun – English ～ a way of hiring longshoremen by the day; applicants gather around a union boss who selects those to be hired
• shake-up — Noun – English ～ the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"
• shoring up — Noun – English ～ the act of propping up with shores
• shoot-'em-up — Noun – English ～ a movie featuring shooting and violence
• Johnny-jump-up — Noun – English ～ common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies
• Johnny-jump-up — Noun – English ～ a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived
• hang-up — Noun – English ～ an unforeseen obstacle
• hang-up — Noun – English ～ an emotional preoccupation
• higher-up — Noun – English ～ one of greater rank or station or quality
• high-up — Noun – English ～ an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
• heads-up — Noun – English ～ a warning message; "he sent a heads-up to the District Attorney"
• digging up — Noun – English ～ the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
• hypertext mark-up language — Noun – English ～ a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents

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