Crossword clues for uptick
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small change upwards or increase in something that has been steady or declining. 2 (context finance English) A stock market transaction or quote at a price above a preceding one.
WordNet
n. a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction [ant: downtick]
Usage examples of "uptick".
Ground-hugging Skyhawk activity had definitely shown an uptick during the year since Abe had gone in.
He managed to get through a worrying report from personnel, regarding a sudden uptick in the number of resignations from the force.
Phoenix felt a slight anticipation, a quick uptick in his blood pressure, but he controlled it quickly.
Added to that was the fact that it was both a government payday and welfare check day, which meant higher alcohol and drug intake in the evening, which generally resulted in an uptick in violent crime.
He felt that he had a lot in common with the kid flying an F-18, which was why he took it especially hard when he read about the uptick in accidents, and worse, how all those high-trained men and women were suddenly making goofs while sitting inside their flight simulators.
The only anomaly was an uptick of activity in the area of the Border Patrol.
Covered in kudzu with half the tin roof missing and one of the walls crumbling, it was tilting to the side, as if any uptick in the breeze would be enough to topple it over.
But overall, there was an uptick in my disposition and I thought this might be the week for me to find the elusive Northwest Passage to the Third Street Mall.
He had the analysis of report cards, showing a clear uptick in grades of the young children.
Norla glanced to the display for Solace in time to see the corresponding upticks in population as the Glister refugees arrived there.
It is a kind of pleasant, almost conversational kind of copulation that gradually moves through a series of almost unquantifiable upticks in pace, each marking a stage in her approach to the climax, until at last he will detect certain unmistakable terminal signals from her, soft staccato moaning sounds, a sudden burst of sweat-slickness along her shoulders, and he will whip himself onward then to the final frenzied strokes, taking his cues from her at every point and letting go in the ultimate moment, finally, of his own carefully governed self-control.