bringing up

Verb

bring up (third-person singular simple present brings up, present participle bringing up, simple past and past participle brought up)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
   • When you're in the basement, can you bring up the paints?
2. To mention.
   • Don't bring up politics if you want to have a quiet conversation with that guy.
3. To raise or rear (children).
   • In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from...1957 July, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471
4. To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
   • A short Internet search brought up some amazing details of this story.

   Synonyms:

   bring back

5. To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
   • Wait a minute while I bring up my computer.
6. To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
   • Anyone who's been tasked with bringing up a board knows how trying it is.

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