Upgrade

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  upgrade
       n 1: 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}]
       2: software that provides better performance than an earlier
          version did


       3: a reservation that is upgraded; "I got an upgrade to first
          class when coach class was full"
       4: the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
          [syn: {rise}, {rising slope}]
       5: hardware that provides better performance than an earlier
          version did
       6: 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 1: rate higher; raise in value or esteem [ant: {downgrade}]
       2: to improve, especially something that was old or outdated;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"
       3: 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}]
       4: get better travel conditions; "I upgraded to First Class
          when Coach Class was overbooked"
       5: give better travel conditions to; "The airline upgraded me
          when I arrived late and Coach Class was full"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "upgrade":
     abruptness, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, acculturate,
     advance, aggrandize, ameliorate, amend, anabasis, anabatic,
     ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent,
     aslant, aslantwise, aslope, at a slant, atilt, better, boost,
     breakthrough, bring forward, civilize, clamber, climb, climbing,
     downgrade, downhill, edify, educate, elevate, elevation, emend,
     enhance, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, escalade, exalt, fatten,
     favor, forward, foster, fountain, go straight, graduate, gush,
     gyring up, hike, improve, improve upon, in the ascendant, increase,
     jet, jump, kick upstairs, knight, lard, leap, leaping, levitation,
     lift, make an improvement, meliorate, mend, mount, mounting,
     nurture, off plumb, pass, precipitousness, prefer, promote, raise,
     rakingly, rampant, rearing, refine upon, reform, rise, rising,
     rising ground, rocketing up, saltation, saltatory, scandent,
     scansorial, shooting up, skyrocketing, slantingly, slantways,
     slantwise, slaunchways, slopeways, slopingly, soaring, socialize,
     spiraling, spout, spring, springing, spurt, steepness,
     straighten out, surge, takeoff, taking off, tipsily, transfigure,
     transform, up, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo,
     upgoing, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, upping,
     uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping,
     upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upwith, vault,
     verticalness, wax, zooming
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  upgrade
       
          1. A new or better version of some {hardware} or {software}.
       
          Often used in {marketroid}-speak to mean "{bug fix}".
       
          2. The act of developing or installing a new version.
       
          (1995-03-14)