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Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Vertical

   Vertical; erect.

   • Fab[ell]: What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ſtrikes my hart! // My ſtiffned haire ſtands vpright on my head, // As doe the briſtles of a porcupine.
   • Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright.
2. 2

   In its proper orientation

   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. 3

   Greater in height than breadth.

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   1. 4

      Of good morals

      Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

      • There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
   2. 5

      Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

   3. 6

      In or into an upright position.

      • I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.
      • Those up for the ride stand upright on a small platform which shoots a powerful jet of water downwards, sending the attached board – which has in the past carried the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio – up into the air.
   4. 7

      Any vertical part of a structure.

      • On the change in architectural forms from the pyramidal to the obeliscar, the fires were transferred from the altars, or cubes, to the summits of the typical uprights, or towers; […]
   5. 8

      A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a…

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

   6. 9

      Short for upright piano

   7. 10

      Short for upright arcade game cabinet

      • The video arcade machines are typically in stand up arcade cabinets, although some have been built as tables. The uprights have a monitor and controls in front and players insert coins or tokens into the machines to play the game.
   8. 11

      Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner.

   9. 12

      The tips of the antlers of a young deer.

   10. 13

       To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

   11. 14

       A surname.

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