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upright::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | unsloped |
| Derivation | uprightness |
an upright post.
upright::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | upright piano |
| Type of | piano, pianoforte, forte-piano |
| Has types | spinet |
Examples of upright
upright
Resistance is frequently difficult, but a spot of book-editing keeps me upright.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The upright twigs create a nice contrast to the tulips, which tend to bow a bit.
From the kentucky.com
Why was it, he asked, people in Delhi were so upright and positively aggressive?
From the independent.co.uk
Zheng's way of thinking is profound and upright and he never stoops to flattery.
From the theepochtimes.com
It was hard to stay upright, and a real struggle just to get to the main street.
From the independent.co.uk
If this line can't keep Favre upright, he's going to wish he had stayed retired.
From the dallasnews.com
Three of the five misses hit an upright, making the pain even more excruciating.
From the washingtonpost.com
You can leave the tree on its stand and place it upright in your garden or yard.
From the stltoday.com
Two hours later I returned to the slow defrosting upright and checked its coils.
From the ocregister.com
- In a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"
- A vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"
- A piano with a vertical sounding board
- Good: of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"
- Erect: upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"
- (uprightly) honorably: in an honorable manner; "he acted honorably"
- The most common relative directions are ', , , , , and . No absolute direction corresponds to any of the relative directions. This is a consequence of the translational invariance of the laws of physics: nature, loosely speaking, behaves the same no matter what direction one moves. ...
- Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports; A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic; An upright piano; Vertical; erect; Greater in height than breadth; Of good morals; ...
- (Uprighting) An ability of the child to move up against the gravity.
