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uplevel

uplevel adjective: having greater capabilities or a higher version number.

Adjective

uplevel (not comparable)

  1. Having greater capabilities or a higher version number.
  2. From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
    • Every now and then we have to smoke some of them out when they get too close to the uplevel neighborhoods.1991, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Space Cops: Mindblast, page 67
    • We hit another dead end, the uplevel ladder far to our right this time.”2005, Linnea Sinclair, Gabriel's Ghost

Adverb

uplevel (not comparable)

  1. From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
    • You're to be allowed uplevel."1999, Kathy Tyers, Firebird, page 91
    • We found the first ladder, went uplevel.2005, Linnea Sinclair, Gabriel's Ghost

Verb

uplevel (third-person singular simple present uplevels, present participle (US) upleveling or (UK) uplevelling, simple past and past participle (US) upleveled or (UK) uplevelled)

  1. (transitive) To raise the level of.
    • The human alternative is to use this emotional energy to uplevel addictions to preferences.1986, Ken Keyes, A conscious person's guide to relationships, page 59
    • This is to help spread Buddhism and uplevel comic book readers to put down the comic books and reach upwards towards the meditation cushion.2005, Brian Ruhe, Freeing the Buddha

Examples of uplevel in a sentence

  • His chrono told him that it was 0342, but that was uplevel time,...2012, Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I - Jedi Twilight, page 27:
  • The uplevel dicks had pissed on a bunch of good officers to make sure nobody came after their guilty asses.2013, Steve Perry, The Vastalimi Gambit, page 43:
  • A flash of bright yellow and blue hurtled quickly uplevel through the atrium's center.2005, Linnea Sinclair, An Accidental Goddess:
  • When I begin planning something new or desire to uplevel my game, I eschew unworkable ideas and unproven theories.2009, M. Diane Vogt, Preparing for Reentry:

Antonyms of uplevel

Forms of uplevel

third-person singular presentuplevels
present participle USupleveling
present participle UKuplevelling
past participle USupleveled
past USupleveled
past participle UKuplevelled
past UKuplevelled

Origin of uplevel

From up- + level.

Questions about uplevel

What does uplevel mean?
Uplevel means having greater capabilities or a higher version number.
How do you use uplevel in a sentence?
His chrono told him that it was 0342, but that was uplevel time,...
What part of speech is uplevel?
Uplevel can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.

Words near uplevel in the dictionary

  1. upleapt
  2. Upleatham
  3. upled
  4. upleg
  5. uplegs
  6. uplevel
  7. upleveled
  8. upleveling
  9. uplevelled
  10. uplevelling
  11. uplevels

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