step upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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動詞

step up (third-person singular simple present steps up, present participle stepping up, simple past and past participle stepped up)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.

   Coordinate terms: upgrade, ramp up

   Near-synonym: level up

   They will need to step up production if they are going to compete.

   Step up your shower game!

   • 1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], Taning County CCP Committee, “The 'Gang of Four' Sabotaged the Campaign to Learn From Tachai in Agriculture in a Vain Attempt to Restore Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 4‎:

     As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere.
     In the face of the excellent situation, the anti-party clique of the "gang of four,"--Wang, Chang, Chiang and Yao--stepped up their antiparty activities and strengthend their attacks on the party.

   • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎:

     United were made to pay for letting an eight-point lead as little as five weeks ago slip and, despite their final-day efforts, they will look back on a season where, when they needed to step up, they fell flat.

派生した語

• → Swedish: steppa upp

語源 2

Ellipsis of step up to the plate (“take one's turn at bat, take responsibility”).

動詞

step up (third-person singular simple present steps up, present participle stepping up, simple past and past participle stepped up)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility.

   Synonyms: volunteer, offer

   Antonyms: step aside, step down

   Won't anyone step up to the challenge?

   • 2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC‎:

     The Gunners continued to press after the break but it was Leeds who broke the deadlock in the 54th minute. There was no doubt about the penalty either, with Denilson clumsily fouling Gradel and Snodgrass stepping up to find the bottom corner of the net.

アナグラム

• uppest, upstep

発音

形容詞

step-up (not comparable)

1. (of a transformer etc) That increases a voltage.

   a step-up transformer

   Antonyms: stepdown, step-down

名詞

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.

   Hypernyms: exercise < movement

   Coordinate terms: stairclimbing; sit-up, push-up, press-up, pull-up

2. An increase.

   Antonyms: stepdown, step-down

   • 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.

3. (especially US, taxation) A phenomenon whereby the growth in market value of an asset or investment is not taxed under certain circumstances, generally involving buying and holding until the buyer's death, followed by inheritance.

   a step-up in basis;   on a step-up basis

アナグラム

• uppest, upstep