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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To shift a motor vehicle into a higher gear.
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“Anyone found that in the Dirt2 video the shifting animation for the upshift was a little late?”
“So the explosion at the mountain summit is likely a cover for Criss Angel to sneak in and "upshift" for him.”
All You Riders Flog My Product: Epics in the Service of Publicity
“Sequential gearboxes work by having only two gears, an "upshift" and a "downshift".”
“Mazda gets extra racing cred for putting the upshift gate rearward, and the downshift gate forward, which is naturally where your hand wants to go if you are braking for a corner and downshifting.”
The Wall Street Journal: Mazda3 Really Moves the Needle (Not the Gas One)
“Today we attempted to upshift two common everyday utensils through a modified version of our experimental electromagnetic phase shift device.”
“Granted, the car will automatically downshift, but it does not automatically upshift, so you can control your gearage much more.”
“I am rewarded with a hateful shove in the back, an upshift that takes, according to the company, 50 milliseconds—in case you're curious what explosive decom”
“The effort marks a major upshift in the central government's stance on the so-called "people's war" of the Maoists.”
“We have to "shift gears" between activities, and often forget to place ourselves in Neutral before we upshift.”
“The upshift, however, still requires a relatively big lateral push on the brake lever.”
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