Definizione monolingua

upright

upright (plural uprights)

1. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
   • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, BBC:

     Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright.

2. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
3. (informal) An upright piano.

upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright)

1. Vertical; erect.

   I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.

   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The merry Deuill of Edmonton, introduction, lines 1–4

     Fab[ell]:?What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ?trikes my hart! // My ?tiffned haire ?tands vpright on my head, // As doe the bri?tles of a porcupine.

   • 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress, volume V, Book X, chapter X: “A Termination”, page 372

     Supported by pillows, ?he ?at almo?t upright.

   • 2006, Neil A. Campbell, Biology: concepts & connections, page 404:

     Upright posture evolved well before an enlarged brain in hominids.

2. Greater in height than breadth.
3. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright)

1. in or into an upright position

Definizione dizionario upright

fedele

corretto

destro

diritto

dritto

eretto

giusto

in piedi

onesto

pari

perpendicolare

retta

retto

ripido

ritto

supporto verticale

verticale

Altri significati:

Of moral excellence.

(informal) An upright piano.

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

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

In or into an upright position.

Greater in height than breadth.

Vertical; erect.

vertical; erect

Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.

In an angle of 90° to the ground.

straight (ahead)

of good morals