Definitions for Upright
ˈʌpˌraɪt, ʌpˈraɪtup·right

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Uprightadjective

   Etymology: up and right.

   1. Straight up; perpendicularly erect.

   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.

   2. Erected; pricked up.

   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.

   3. Honest; not declining from the right.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Structural Member

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How to pronounce Upright?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Upright in sign language?

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. Livonia Police Capt. Ron Taig:

   He's trying to swim. He's trying to get in a position to get upright. There's a lot of people playing. I think he gets lost in the confusion.

2. Alfred Adler:

   There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

3. Clifford Villalon:

   Your disappearance will not be the silence or absence of your love and compassion for others. Just stay upright, humble and balanced.

4. Kee Kim:

   It’s not just that standing and sitting upright looks better. When you slouch forward at your desk, you are putting almost twice as much strain on the disks than if you were sitting straight up.

5. Aesop:

   The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Upright
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Upright
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Upright
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upright
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Upright
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Upright
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Upright