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Definition of Upright

Upright
Upright Up"right`, a. (Golf) Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
Upright
Upright Up"right`, n. (Basketwork) A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.
Upright
Upright Up"right`, a. [AS. upright, uppriht. See Up, and Right, a.] 1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. --Dryden. All have their ears upright. --Spenser. 2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways. And that man [Job] was perfect and upright. --Job i. 1. 3. Conformable to moral rectitude. Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure. --J. M. Mason. 4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] `` He lay upright.' --Chaucer. Upright drill (Mach.), a drilling machine having the spindle vertical. Note: This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the accent on the first syllable. But they are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is admissible.
Upright
Upright Up"right`, n. Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

Meaning of Upright from wikipedia

- direction of down. Another common definition uses a human body, standing upright, as a frame of reference. In that case, up is defined as the direction...
- The Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The original incarnation...
- a pianist. There are two main types of piano: the grand piano and the upright piano. The grand piano offers better sound and more precise key control...
- Upright position may refer to: Upright position (electronics), a signal upconverted to the multiplexer band without inverting the frequencies an upright...
- Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His 2016 short story "The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright" has been translated into more than 100 languages. In...
- The double b**** (/ˈdʌbəl beɪs/), also known as the upright b****, the acoustic b****, the bull fiddle, or simply the b****, is the largest and lowest-pitched...
- languages spoken in the country: "Burkina" comes from Mooré and means "upright", showing how the people are proud of their integrity, while "Faso" comes...
- Upright is an Australian comedy drama television series created by Chris Taylor that premiered on 28 November 2019 on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom...
- I/Model R or "Upright Grand" was the largest upright piano made by Steinway & Sons in the 20th Century. Steinway New York introduced the "Upright Grand" scale...
- An upright posture is when an animal's craniocaudal axis is vertical like the posture during the bipedal gait or the posture of a seahorse. Bailey, Alexander...