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形容詞

uplevel (not comparable)

1. (marketing) Having greater capabilities or a higher version number.
2. 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.

反意語

• downlevel

副詞

uplevel (not comparable)

1. 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.

動詞

uplevel (third-person singular simple present uplevels, present participle (米国用法) upleveling or uplevelling, simple past and past participle (米国用法) upleveled or uplevelled)

1. (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.

アナグラム

• level up