1. ups - Noun
2. ups - Verb
3. ups - Interjection
4. Ups - Proper noun
(electronics) Initialism of uninterruptible power supply/source
Initialism of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy.
(biochemistry) Initialism of ubiquitin-proteasome system.
UPS (third-person singular simple present UPSes, present participle UPSing, simple past and past participle UPSed)
(electronics, nonstandard) To connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply
If you don't want to lose all your data when the power goes out, you should UPS your computer.
UPS
Initialism of United Parcel Service.
ups
plural of up
ups
third-person singular simple present indicative of up
ups
Misspelling of oops.
Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval. Daniel Levitin
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. W. Somerset Maugham
There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game. C. L. R. James
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived. William Wilberforce
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period. Darren Aronofsky
It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of ups and downs. Irish Proverb