upright
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Vertical; erect.
Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright.
- 2.
In its proper orientation; not overturned.
My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again.
- 3.
Greater in height than breadth.
- 4.
(figuratively)Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- 5.
(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
In or into an upright position.
I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Any vertical part of a structure.
- 2.
A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- 3.
(abbreviation, alt of, informal)Short for upright piano
- 4.
(abbreviation, alt of, informal)Short for upright arcade game cabinet
- 5.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner.
- 6.
(British, dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete, hunting, dialect, British) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
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ine-pro From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (upright; erect), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with apgjucht, oprjocht, oprecht, uprecht, aufrecht, upprätt, uppréttur.