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Upgrade   /əpgrˈeɪd/  /ˈəpgrˈeɪd/   Listen
Upgrade

verb
1.
Rate higher; raise in value or esteem.  Antonym: downgrade.
2.
To improve what was old or outdated.  "The company upgraded their personnel"
3.
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.  Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise.  "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms" , "I got promoted after many years of hard work"  Antonym: demote.
4.
Get better travel conditions.
5.
Give better travel conditions to.
noun
1.
An upward slope or grade (as in a road).  Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise.  Antonym: descent.
2.
Software that provides better performance than an earlier version did.
3.
A reservation that is improved.
4.
The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises.  Synonyms: rise, rising slope.
5.
Hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did.
6.
The act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components).





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"Upgrade" Quotes from Famous Books



... United Nations is on the upgrade in this war. The Axis leaders, on the other hand, know by now that they have already reached their full strength, and that their steadily mounting losses in men and material cannot be fully replaced. Germany and Japan are already realizing what the inevitable result will be when the total ...
— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
... caught in a rutty road where the going was very heavy, and there was a slight upgrade in addition, to make it worse, slowed up considerably. And Dick, looking out the window on his side, ...
— The Boy Scout Aviators • George Durston
... company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah. From Deh Mollah it is only a couple of farsakhs to Shahrood, and after the first three miles, which is slightly upgrade and not particularly smooth, it is downgrade and very fair wheeling the remainder of the distance. The road forks a couple of miles from Shahrood, and while I am entering by one road, Mr. McIntyre is leaving on horseback by the other to meet me, guessing, ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... passed through his burden. The water had whipped Peter's limbs. An added call for steadiness, but a gladness about it, too, since he was not carrying the dead.... Upgrade now. The soldier behind had passed the turn ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort
... technology and R&D providing insurance policies for future defense needs may prove ill-advised if and as DOD is forced to cut back and reduce those programs even further. Indeed, over time, commercial R&D could become the main source for procuring software and other systems needed to upgrade today's weapons systems and for so-called "leap-ahead" technologies that may prove elusive ...
— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade


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