UPRIGHT
\ˈʌpɹa͡ɪt], \ˈʌpɹaɪt], \ˈʌ_p_ɹ_aɪ_t]\
Definitions of UPRIGHT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass
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erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
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in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"
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a piano with a vertical sounding board
By Princeton University
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of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass
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erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
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in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"
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a piano with a vertical sounding board
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
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A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.
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In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
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Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.
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Conformable to moral rectitude.
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Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
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Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.
By Oddity Software
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Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
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A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.
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In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
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Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.
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Conformable to moral rectitude.
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Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
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Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.
By Noah Webster.
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Standing erect; just; honest.
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In an erect position.
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Something standing straight up, as a timber supporting a rafter.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Erect; perpendicular; just; honest.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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