upright
Any vertical part of a structure, especially a part that provides supportAny vertical part of a structure, especially a part that provides support.
» An empty bag can't stand upright.
Meaning
9 sensesAny vertical part of a structure, especially a part that provides support.
Any vertical part of a structure, especially a part that provides support.
A goal post.
a vertical structural member as a post or stake
The poles of a field goal post.
(slang)A leg.
A tentpole that holds aloft the center or sides of a tent.
Coordinate term: ridge
Something characterized by verticality.
The state of being vertical or perpendicular.
Can you fix that? It's out of upright.
a piano with a vertical sounding board
(informal)Characterized by being awake and out of bed.
A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)The tips of the antlers of a young deer.
Examples
35 sentencesAn empty bag can't stand upright.
He stood in an upright position.
Contrarians are often very upright people.
deQuerdenker sind meistens sehr aufrechte Menschen.
The soul of commerce is upright dealing.
A man should be upright, not kept upright.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”),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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