push up vs push up

push up and push up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
push up	No	No	Yes	No
push up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, push up is a hyponym of push up; that is, push up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than push up:

Other hyponyms of push up include uplift, boost up.

As verbs, push up is a hypernym of push up; that is, push up is a word with a broader meaning than push up:

push up (verb)	push up (verb)
push upward	push upward
push from beneath	push from beneath
push violently in a specified direction	push violently in a specified direction