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- 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.
- 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
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”).
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”).
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”).
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”).
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