get up

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get up

get up [phrasal verb]
US /ɡet/ 
UK /ɡet/ 
Example: 

I didn't get up until midday.

to wake up and get out of bed, or to tell or help someone to do this

get up - بیدار شدن
Persian equivalent: 
Example: 

I didn't get up until midday.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

get up

get up phrasal verb (see also ↑get)
1. get (somebody) up to get out of your bed after sleeping, or to make someone get out of their bed:
We didn’t get up until lunchtime.
Get me up at seven, would you?
2. to stand up:
He got up and walked over to the window.
3. if a wind or storm gets up, it starts and gets stronger
4. be got up as/in something British English informal to be dressed in particular clothes:
He arrived at the party got up as Count Dracula.
The men were all got up in suits.
5. get it up informal to get an ↑erection(1)

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

get up

▪ I. ˌget ˈup derived
1. to stand up after sitting, lying, etc.
Syn:  rise

• The class got up when the teacher came in.

2. if the sea or wind gets up, it increases in strength and becomes violent

Main entry: getderived

▪ II. ˌget ˈup | ˌget sb ˈup derived

to get out of bed; to make sb get out of bed

• He always gets up early.

• Could you get me up at 6.30 tomorrow?

Main entry: getderived

get-up

ˈget-up [get-up get-ups]       noun (old-fashioned, informal)

a set of clothes, especially strange or unusual ones

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

get up (STAND) — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )

B2 to stand up:

The whole audience got up and started clapping.

 

get up UK (GROW STRONG) — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )

If the wind gets up, it starts to grow stronger:

The wind is getting up.

 

get (sb) up — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )

get (sb) up

A1 to wake up and get out of bed, or to tell or help someone to do this:

I got up at five o'clock this morning!

It's dreadful trying to get the kids up on school days.

 

get sth up — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )

UK to organize a group of people to do something:

He's getting up a small group to go carol-singing for charity.

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

get up

1.
When someone who is sitting or lying down gets up, they rise to a standing position.
I got up and walked over to where he was.
= stand up
PHRASAL VERB: V P

2.
When you get up, you get out of bed.
They have to get up early in the morning.
PHRASAL VERB: V P

3.
see also get-up
 

get-up

(get-ups)

If you refer to a set of clothes as a get-up, you think that they are unusual or ridiculous. (INFORMAL)
Naturally he couldn’t work in this get-up.

N-COUNT [disapproval]

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