UPS


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UPS

abbr.
ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy
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UPS

Trademark. United Parcel Service.
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Translations

UPS

abbr of uninterruptible power supplyUSV
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References in classic literature ?
Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle." "Forbear," said the Miller to him, "harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune."
We should have our trials, our ups and downs, I know; but surely it is by those that true love learns how to grow more true and strong.
The intrigue of close texture will never suit our conditions, which are so loose and open and variable; each man's life among us is a romance of the Spanish model, if it is the life of a man who has risen, as we nearly all have, with many ups and downs.
After a time John of Gaunt returned to power, and again Chaucer had a post given to him, and so until he died he suffered ups and downs.
Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.
He was poking along through his ups and downs, and when he come to that place he went right along.
'He must have had some ups and downs in life to make him such a churl.
Ups and downs, generosity, dark fates, the most delicate goodness, have nowhere been more prominent than in the private existence of those devoted to the public mimicry of men and women.
The costs to install UPS systems with a single common ground point in new facilities can be nominal.
* An on-line UPS provides the computer with full-time electricity and it's continuously being recharged from the wall socket.
Atlanta, GA - UPS (NYSE:UPS) today said the company will not apply additional Peak surcharges for U.S.