Upright
adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 Any vertical part of a structure.
"On the change in architectural forms from the pyramidal to the obeliscar, the fires were transferred from the altars, or cubes, to the summits of the typical uprights, or towers; […]"
- 2 a piano with a vertical sounding board wordnet
- 3 Any vertical part of a structure.; A goal post.
"Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright."
- 4 a vertical structural member as a post or stake wordnet
- 5 Any vertical part of a structure.; A leg. slang
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- 6 A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- 7 Short for upright piano abbreviation, alt-of, informal
- 8 Short for upright arcade game cabinet abbreviation, alt-of, informal
"The video arcade machines are typically in stand up arcade cabinets, although some have been built as tables. The uprights have a monitor and controls in front and players insert coins or tokens into the machines to play the game."
- 9 Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 10 The tips of the antlers of a young deer. British, dialectal, obsolete
- 1 To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). transitive
- 1 Vertical; erect.
"Fab[ell]: What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ſtrikes my hart! // My ſtiffned haire ſtands vpright on my head, // As doe the briſtles of a porcupine."
- 2 In its proper orientation; not overturned.
"My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again."
- 3 Greater in height than breadth.
- 4 Of good morals; practicing ethical values. figuratively
"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."
- 5 Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
- 1 in a vertical position; not sloping wordnet
- 2 upright in position or posture wordnet
- 3 of moral excellence wordnet
- 1 In or into an upright position.
"I was standing upright, waiting for my orders."
- 1 A surname.
Antonyms
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More examples"He sits upright, not crouched over his plate like an animal at a feeding trough."
Etymology
From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic uppréttur (“upright”).