use up in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for use up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

1.1. use (for task, purpose):

III.use N [Am jus, Brit juːs]

1. use U (of machine, substance, method, word):

uso m

3. use U (usefulness):

a (fat) lot of use you are! iron
no hay caso LatAm
what's the use (of -ing)?
what's the use (of -ing)?

I.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADV up often appears as the second element of certain verb structures in English (back up, pick up, sit up, etc). For translations, see the relevant verb entry (back, pick, sit, etc).

1.1. up (in upward direction):

up a bitleft a bit
up United! Brit

II.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] PREP

III.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADJ

IV.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB trans inf

V.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB intr

See also come up to

use up in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for use up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

IV.up <-pp-> [ʌp] VB intr inf

British English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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A typical dragline, with a 55-cubic-metre bucket, can use up to 6 megawatts during normal digging operations.
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The first type of maneuver makes the plane temporarily invulnerable to enemy fire and use up some of the engine power.
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Water-borne bacteria digest organic material in leachate, but use up much of the available oxygen.
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Visiting towns, dungeons, and recruiting einherjar use up periods, requiring that the player budget their available time.
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Portions of the railway were in use up until the 1980s.
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The seal was in official use up to 1570.
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The interference hypothesis predicts that processing steps use up memory slots, but the simple decay hypothesis predicts that increased processing time causes memory to decay.
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However, some were still in use up to medieval times.
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The flexible port that can be fitted through a small incision in the navel to allow surgeons to use up to three laparoscopic devices simultaneously.
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This would use up resources on the server, and was a potential area for denial of service attacks.
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