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.
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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. — MUIRIEL
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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