Bring up

verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes wordnet
  3. 3
    To mention.

    "Don't bring up politics if you want to have a quiet conversation with that guy."

  4. 4
    make reference to wordnet
  5. 5
    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 Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed."

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  1. 6
    put forward for consideration or discussion wordnet
  2. 7
    To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)

    "A short Internet search brought up some amazing details of this story."

  3. 8
    summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic wordnet
  4. 9
    To turn on power or start, as of a machine.

    "Wait a minute while I bring up my computer."

  5. 10
    cause to come to a sudden stop wordnet
  6. 11
    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."

  7. 12
    raise from a lower to a higher position wordnet
  8. 13
    To vomit.

    "I was very ill today; I kept bringing up everything I ate."

  9. 14
    promote from a lower position or rank wordnet
  10. 15
    To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.

    ""[…]Mr. Wolfe, I beg you—I beg of you—" I was sure she was going to cry and I didn't want her to. But Wolfe brusquely brought her up: "That's all, Miss Barstow.[…]""

  11. 16
    look after a child until it is an adult wordnet
  12. 17
    To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.

    "Warner smacked a four over midwicket to bring up his century."

  13. 18
    To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.

    "The book [The Gilded Hearse] was brought up on obscenity charges, partly as a result of the gay content, but a New York magistrate dismissed the charges."

  14. 19
    To level type or make it ready for printing by overlaying it. obsolete
  15. 20
    To prepare a vein for an injection. transitive

Etymology

From Middle English bryngen up, dissimilated from Middle English upbryngen (“to bring up, raise”). Doublet of upbring.

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