What does upright mean?

Definitions for upright
ˈʌpˌraɪt, ʌpˈraɪtup·right

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. upright, verticalnoun

    a vertical structural member as a post or stake

    "the ball sailed between the uprights"

  2. upright, upright pianoadjective

    a piano with a vertical sounding board

  3. upright, unslopedadjective

    in a vertical position; not sloping

    "an upright post"

  4. good, just, uprightadjective

    of moral excellence

    "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"

  5. erect, vertical, uprightadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. uprightnoun

    Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.

  2. uprightnoun

    A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

  3. uprightnoun

    An upright piano.

  4. uprightadverb

    in or into an upright position

  5. uprightadjective

    Vertical; erect.

    I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.

  6. uprightadjective

    Greater in height than breadth.

  7. uprightadjective

    Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

  8. Etymology: From upriht, from up + riht

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Uprightadjective

    Etymology: up and right.

    Comb down his hair; look! look! it stands upright. Sha.

    They are upright as the palm-tree. Jer x.

    In the morning, taking of somewhat of easy digestion, as milk, furthers nourishment: but this would be done sitting upright, that the milk may pass more speedily to the stomach. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    A tree at first setting, should not be shaken; and therefore put two little forks about the bottom of your trees, to keep them upright. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Circe, the daughter of the sun; whose charms
    Whoever tasted lost his upright shape,
    And downward fell into a grov’ling swine. John Milton.

    Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
    His mighty stature. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. i.

    You have the orthography, or upright of this ground-plat, and the explanation thereof, with a scale of feet and inches. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.

    All have their ears upright, waiting when the watchword shall come, that they should all arise unto rebellion. Edmund Spenser.

    Stood Theodore surpriz’d in deadly fright,
    With chatt’ring teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.

    Such neighbour nearness shou’d not partialize
    Th’ unstooping firmness of my upright soul. William Shakespeare.

    How hast thou instill’d
    Thy malice into thousands, once upright
    And faithful, now prov’d false! John Milton, Par. Lost.

    The most upright of mortal men was he;
    The most sincere, and holy woman, she. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. upright

    Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's. The most common ones are: left and right; forward(s) and backward(s); up and down. They form three pairs of orthogonal axes.

ChatGPT

  1. upright

    Upright refers to an object, posture, or position that is straight up and down, in a vertical or perpendicular direction, or not slanting or leaning. It can also refer to a person who is considered to be honest, honorable, or acting in accordance with high moral standards.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Uprightadjective

    in an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree

  2. Uprightadjective

    morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways

  3. Uprightadjective

    conformable to moral rectitude

  4. Uprightadjective

    stretched out face upward; flat on the back

  5. Uprightnoun

    something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Upright

    up′rīt, adj. right or straight up: in an erect position: adhering to rectitude: honest: just.—adv. vertically.—advs. Uprigh′teously (obs.), in an upright or just manner; Up′rightly, in an upright manner: honestly.—n. Up′rightness.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. UPRIGHT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Upright is ranked #28362 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Upright surname appeared 842 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Upright.

    95.4% or 804 total occurrences were White.
    1.4% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.3% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.9% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of upright in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of upright in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of upright in a Sentence

  1. La Stella:

    He has some surprising pop. He's really good when he's upright like he was today. i just want to make sure I'm getting something in the zone.

  2. Michael Gresty:

    The reason that we can't understand these motions; the brain if you like can't understand these motions, is that there's continual conflict between what is upright and whether you should lean to balance yourself in the environment or whether you're actually experiencing a sideways acceleration force. You imagine being on a bicycle or a motorbike; you go round a corner, you lean into the corner which remains perfectly upright in physics. You don't so that in a car, you don't do that on a ship - you're actually struggling to find out what is upright and what's the best way of dealing with it.

  3. Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva:

    Our science has known for decades that upright walking, bipedalism, preceded brain enlargement over the course of human evolution. But never before has it been so obvious. Homo naledi possessed a strikingly modern human-like foot, even though its brain was only about one-third the size of our brains today.

  4. Myles Garrett:

    I took a shot on one of the first plays. After that, it was tough. Using running back Josh Jacobs and a short passing game, Carr controlled the clock in the second half and kept the ball away from the Browns( 5-3). On the Raiders first two drives after halftime, the first leading to their go-ahead TD and the other to Carlsons 24-yard field goal with 4:24 left, they ate up 17:41. Oakland had the ball for 37:43 to 22:17 for Cleveland. Josh Jacobs finished with a career-high 128 yards 80 in the second half on 31 carries. Last week, Josh Jacobs had just 17 yards on 10 attempts. It was about time we had a run game like that, Josh Jacobs said. It feels good to be that dominant. The Raiders defense did The Raiders defense part as Las Vegas stopped Las Vegas NFL record of allowing at least 10 points at 116 straight games. Baker Mayfield couldnt get anything going with Clevelands offense, which was without star receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who suffered a season-ending knee injury last week. Baker Mayfield, who completed 21 passes in a row in the win over Cincinnati a week ago, went 12 of 25 for 122 yards. Mayfields last throw toward Jarvis Landry in the end zone was incomplete with 1:58 left, and Cody Parkey missed a 37-yard field goal to end Clevelands chances. Cody Parkey did make kicks of 41 and 38 yards. Theweather was brutal. The wind, measured from the west at 35 mph at kickoff, made it difficult for both quarterbacks to throw ; affected every punt and kick ; and forced the 12,000 fans to bundle up as it felt more like a game in late December or in Cleveland, early May. Im from the beach, Renfrow said. That was more wind than a hurricane it seemed like. It was coming sideways, backwards and forward. Carr did an excellent job managing the clock in the final minute of the first half to set up Carlsons 33-yard field goal as time expired to put The Raiders up 6-3. The Raiders appeared to take the lead in the second quarter when Carr connected with Henry Ruggs III in the back right corner of the end zone. However, Ruggs was ruled out of bounds and the call was upheld following a video review and Raiders challenge. Las Vegas settled for Carlsons 29-yard field goal to tie Las Vegas 3-3. Earlier, Carlsonhad a 41-yard attemptat the opposite end of the field blown sideways and the ball clanged off the left upright. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Myles Garrett SLOWED Myles Garrett was limited by an ankle injury that kept Myles Garrett out of practice this week, and now hes dealing with a knee issue. At one point, Myles Garrett was evaluated in the medical tent but came back. Myles Garrett was kept out on several plays, and lacked Myles Garrett usual explosiveness off the line. We havent made excuses and were not going to start now. Its a next-man-up league.

  5. John Ligato:

    So they hear a noise and they look back and there’s Canley. He’s walking down, upright, not running, walks over the little berm, picks up the first guy, throws him over his shoulder and walks back, so there’s two independent eyewitnesses on this. ... Canley says to them, individually, ‘Keep down, there’s a lot of incoming.’.

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  • مستقيمArabic
  • খাড়াBengali
  • dret, recte, dempeusCatalan, Valencian
  • vzpřímenýCzech
  • hochkant, aufrechtGerman
  • pystyFinnish
  • intègreFrench
  • זקוףHebrew
  • jujurIndonesian
  • dritto, virtuoso, retto, onesto, eretto, in posizione verticale, in verticale, in piedi, integroItalian
  • قیتKurdish
  • tūtika, matatika, turuturu, matikaMāori
  • oprecht, achter elkaar, overeindDutch
  • íntegroPortuguese
  • подпорка, прямо, стойка ворот, стойка, отвесный, вертикально, вертикальный, колонна, прямой, стоймя, стоя, честный, пианиноRussian

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