step-up

step-up

See also: step up

English

Adjective

step-up (not comparable)

1. That increases in stages. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (of a transformer etc) That increases a voltage.

Antonyms

• step-down

Derived terms

• step-up transformer

Translations

voltage increase

Chinese: Mandarin: 升壓／升压 (shēng yā) Finnish: jännitettä nostava Japanese: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: tăng thế

Noun

step-up (plural step-ups)

1. (exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.
2. An increase.
   • 1963 July, “News and Comment: Roller bearings for freight stock”, in Modern Railways, pages 5-6:

     Elsewhere in this issue, for example, an article on the new pattern of freight train operation in the N.E.R. consequent upon the opening this summer of its three mechanised marshalling yards shows that one effect will be a further step-up in the speed of the East Coast main line freight traffic.

Translations

leg-stemming lift

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: penkille nousu, askellus German: Treppensteigen n, Treppensteiger m, Aufsteiger (de) m Russian: заша́гивание n (zašágivanije), заша́гивание на возвы́шенность n (zašágivanije na vozvýšennostʹ), заша́гивание на платфо́рму n (zašágivanije na platfórmu), заша́гивание на ла́вку n (zašágivanije na lávku), заша́гивание вверх n (zašágivanije vverx) Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can Slovene: please add this translation if you can Swedish: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• step up

Anagrams

• uppest, upstep