Lexic.us

Definition of Step up

1. Verb. Increase in extent or intensity. "The Allies escalated the bombing"

2. Verb. Speed up. "Let's rev up production"

3. Verb. Make oneself visible; take action. "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"

Definition of Step up

1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To increase speed or rate. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To assume responsibility; to volunteer or offer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Step Up

step in step in front of a moving train step ladder step ladders step on step on a rake step on it step on someone's toes step out step over

step overs step stool step stools step to the fore step up (current term) step up to the plate stepanovite stepaunt stepaunts stepbairn

stepbro stepbros stepbrother stepbrothers stepchart stepchild stepchildhood stepchildren stepcousin

Literary usage of Step up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What is Electricity? by John Trowbridge (1896)
"This arrangement constitutes a species of double Ruhmkorff coil, or two step-up transformers. Instead of using a battery to excite the first Ruhmkorff coil, ..."

2. X rays: An Introduction to the Study of Röntgen Rays by George William Clarkson Kaye (1914)
"... inserted. the desirability of avoiding its use by not generating the inverse current at all, if that were possible. HIGH-TENSION STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS. ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"De Forest was the first to use the alternating current and " step up " transformer, which is now known to have been used by Marconi in his long-distance ..."

4. X Rays by George William Clarkson Kaye (1918)
"... inserted. the desirability of avoiding its use by not generating the inverse current at all, if that were possible. HIGH-TENSION STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS. ..."

5. Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania: A History, 1623-1923 by Frank Marshall Eastman (1922)
"... entirely to his own determination to succeed, which has led him step by step up the ladder of success to the point which he now so deservedly occupies. ..."

6. Alternating-current Electricity and Its Applications to Industry by William Henry Timbie, Henry Harold Higbie (1914)
"Alternating-current Systems for Long-distance Transmission where Step-up Transformers are Required. Where the transmission of electric power must be made to ..."

Other Resources: