Crossword clues for upgrade
upgrade
- Advance quietly in university class
- Software buy
- Go from coach to business, say
- Switch to a better airplane class
- Software improvement
- Roomier airplane seat, say
- Raise standard of
- One way to get into business
- Improved model
- Improve in quality
- Get a new cell phone, maybe
- Buy a better whatever
- Ascending slope
- Add memory to, say
- (Of equipment) improve
- Modernize
- Stay current, computerwise
- Improvement
- Better model
- An upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- Incline
- Marathoner's challenge
- Promote in rank
- Raise in importance
- Argued shiftily about pressure to improve
- Raise to a higher standard
- Raise in standard
- Improved version
- Improve ranking after winning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. an improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology vb. 1 to improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components 2 to replace an existing object with something better 3 (context computing English) to replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name
WordNet
n. an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb] [ant: descent]
software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
a reservation that is upgraded; "I got an upgrade to first class when coach class was full"
the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises [syn: rise, rising slope]
hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components); "the power plant received a new upgrade"
v. rate higher; raise in value or esteem [ant: downgrade]
to improve, especially something that was old or outdated; "I've upgraded my computer so I can run better software"; "The company upgraded their personnel"
give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" [syn: promote, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate] [ant: demote]
get better travel conditions; "I upgraded to First Class when Coach Class was overbooked"
give better travel conditions to; "The airline upgraded me when I arrived late and Coach Class was full"
Wikipedia
Upgrading is the process of replacing a product with a newer version of the same product. In computing and consumer electronics an upgrade is generally a replacement of hardware, software or firmware with a newer or better version, in order to bring the system up to date or to improve its characteristics.
Usage examples of "upgrade".
Glocks were standard police issue, at least twenty years old, that IntenSecure bought by the truckload from PDs that could afford to upgrade to caseless ammunition.
Once a robotic toy companion, a crude electromotive toy from the first decade of the twenty-first century, Aineko was progressively upgraded and patched and periodically migrated to a new hardware platform -- until, by some time in the third or fourth decade, it acquired an agenda of its own.
The government has also announced programs to create heavy industry, such as new iron and steel and aluminum works, to build another petrochemical complex, to upgrade fertilizer plants, and to reconstruct the offshore oil export terminals at Khor al Amaya and Mina al Bakr.
Would you like to be rated as a captured Viet Cong enemy soldier or would you like to have your status upgraded to one of defector, rallier, a guy who surrendered.
Taking an upgrade, the car came to a sprawly bungalow that stretched among the trees.
I then spent the remainder of the morning gradually upgrading my entire wardrobe, here purchasing untattered trousers, there a better second-hand coat, in a third place some shoes without holes.
Some of them even go as far as to say that that the only thing needed for the further work on the bacteria hybrid was the bacteria itself, since it already had in itself all the tools required for any further modifications or upgrades, and that means that all the further development effort could be conducted at home.
House Barca will be able to upgrade their defenses and maybe even buy new ships.
And the shop always employed technerd teenagers as their outfront salesforce, they were the only ones who kept up to date on upgrades and new marques that would work on minimum-wage weeks.
The doctor continued his mini-lecture, but now he upgraded my intelligence and threw in a few polysyllabic words.
To upgrade our roster, I could use the draft, I could use trades, I could sign players not under contract to other teams--so-called street free agents--and I could use free agency, first the Plan B concept and then the free-agency method that now functions in the NFL.
Suburb, the area north of the Forum, once seedy but now redeveloped and upgraded since the Aeonian fire.
If the Talin governments officially denied the existence of these extraplanetary craft, why did they then upgrade their defenses?
We have plans to upgrade all city and civil area force fields, anticipating the Primes will launch a second attack.
Many companies used this windfall not merely to import more raw and semifinished products, but also to upgrade equipment and acquire advanced foreign technology.