Upright
adjective
In a vertical position, not laying down.
The book was kept upright on the shelf.
Often appears as...
- stand upright
- sit upright
adjective
Honest, moral, and fair.
He was always an upright and fair policeman.
Often appears as...
- upright citizen
- upright conduct
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Approving
adverb
In or into a vertical position.
After falling, he quickly stood upright.
Often appears as...
- sit upright
- get upright
noun
A post, rod, or beam vertically fixed for support.
The uprights of the bed frame are very sturdy.
Often appears as...
- bed upright
- fence upright
noun
A kind of piano.
This upright makes a beautiful sound compared to the grand piano.
Often appears as...
- upright piano
- play upright
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Technical
adjective
In a vertical position, not laying down.
The book was kept upright on the shelf.
Often appears as...
- stand upright
- sit upright
adjective
Honest, moral, and fair.
He was always an upright and fair policeman.
Often appears as...
- upright citizen
- upright conduct
Usage tips
Approving
adverb
In or into a vertical position.
After falling, he quickly stood upright.
Often appears as...
- sit upright
- get upright
noun
A post, rod, or beam vertically fixed for support.
The uprights of the bed frame are very sturdy.
Often appears as...
- bed upright
- fence upright
noun
A kind of piano.
This upright makes a beautiful sound compared to the grand piano.
Often appears as...
- upright piano
- play upright
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Physical positioning
Used when something is perpendicular to the ground and often implies stability.
Make sure the ladder is upright before you climb.
Pro Tip 2/2Attention to posture
Advises to straighten one's body for formality, health, or attentiveness.
She sat upright during the interview to appear more professional.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical positioning
Used when something is perpendicular to the ground and often implies stability.
Make sure the ladder is upright before you climb.
Pro Tip 2/2Attention to posture
Advises to straighten one's body for formality, health, or attentiveness.
She sat upright during the interview to appear more professional.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical positioning
Used when something is perpendicular to the ground and often implies stability.
Make sure the ladder is upright before you climb.
Pro Tip 2/2Attention to posture
Advises to straighten one's body for formality, health, or attentiveness.
She sat upright during the interview to appear more professional.
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Why are we happy? Why...
before they try them out in real life. This is a trick that none of our ancestors could do, and that no other animal can do quite like we can. It's a marvelous adaptation. It's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that got our species out of the trees and into the shopping mall.
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Can Sloths Kill You? PIPE...
can move around on the ground, but a sloth moving around on the ground is possibly one of the creepiest things that you will ever see in your life. Yeah, it's it's more of like a crawl in a really strange way, like something out of a horror film, really. But no, they can't walk upright. Why do sloths exist?
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My family’s musical...
it was an entire collection of classical records that she's secretly acquired one week at a time for months and months has parted an incentive program at the grocery store and from that point forward there was always music in the o'reilly household my humble outside base upright washtub didn't matter he
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The benefits of good...
These curves help us stay upright and absorb some of the stress from activities like walking and jumping. If they are aligned properly, when you're standing up, you should be able to draw a straight line from a point just in front of your shoulders, to behind your hip, to the front of your knee,
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The science of skin -...
where they help shield the large surface area of your head from physical damage and sunburn. When you're cold, tiny muscles called arrector pilli cause hair to stand upright across the body. That’s the phenomenon known as goosebumps and it traps body heat close to your skin.
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CERN's supercollider PIPE...
in that first generation of stars, could fuse with hydrogen to form water, liquid water on the surface. On at least one, and maybe only one of those planets, primitive life evolved, which evolved over millions of years into things that walked upright and left footprints
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The surprising science...
in real life this is a trick that none of our ancestors could do that no other animal can do quite like we can it's a marvellous adaptation it's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that
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Who was Confucius? -...
So when one duke bragged that his subjects were so upright that a son testified against his own father when his father stole a sheep, Confucius informed the duke that genuinely upright fathers and sons protected one another.
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Palenque and the Ancient...
have upright monuments out in isolated clauses and things that that Palenque instead given the great limestone sources they had put big slabs on the walls of the temples and this helped to preserve the inscriptions and the
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Best Of Attenborough And...
bones so we can't be sure about the length of the neck nor can we be sure about the posture really this one looks to me rather front heavy and it could well be that in life the animal was more upright
Video examples
Why are we happy? Why...
before they try them out in real life. This is a trick that none of our ancestors could do, and that no other animal can do quite like we can. It's a marvelous adaptation. It's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that got our species out of the trees and into the shopping mall.
Video examples
Can Sloths Kill You? PIPE...
can move around on the ground, but a sloth moving around on the ground is possibly one of the creepiest things that you will ever see in your life. Yeah, it's it's more of like a crawl in a really strange way, like something out of a horror film, really. But no, they can't walk upright. Why do sloths exist?
Video examples
My family’s musical...
it was an entire collection of classical records that she's secretly acquired one week at a time for months and months has parted an incentive program at the grocery store and from that point forward there was always music in the o'reilly household my humble outside base upright washtub didn't matter he
Video examples
The benefits of good...
These curves help us stay upright and absorb some of the stress from activities like walking and jumping. If they are aligned properly, when you're standing up, you should be able to draw a straight line from a point just in front of your shoulders, to behind your hip, to the front of your knee,
Video examples
The science of skin -...
where they help shield the large surface area of your head from physical damage and sunburn. When you're cold, tiny muscles called arrector pilli cause hair to stand upright across the body. That’s the phenomenon known as goosebumps and it traps body heat close to your skin.
Video examples
CERN's supercollider PIPE...
in that first generation of stars, could fuse with hydrogen to form water, liquid water on the surface. On at least one, and maybe only one of those planets, primitive life evolved, which evolved over millions of years into things that walked upright and left footprints
Video examples
The surprising science...
in real life this is a trick that none of our ancestors could do that no other animal can do quite like we can it's a marvellous adaptation it's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that
Video examples
Who was Confucius? -...
So when one duke bragged that his subjects were so upright that a son testified against his own father when his father stole a sheep, Confucius informed the duke that genuinely upright fathers and sons protected one another.
Video examples
Palenque and the Ancient...
have upright monuments out in isolated clauses and things that that Palenque instead given the great limestone sources they had put big slabs on the walls of the temples and this helped to preserve the inscriptions and the
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Best Of Attenborough And...
bones so we can't be sure about the length of the neck nor can we be sure about the posture really this one looks to me rather front heavy and it could well be that in life the animal was more upright
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Thomas Becket
English Clergyman
Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?
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Emmitt Smith
American Athlete
I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.
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Jos Buttler
English Athlete
Your core holds you upright; it helps you bend and twist and jump; it helps you transfer power through your body; and it strengthens your posture, whether you are batting, sitting at a desk or running around a park.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
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Big Freedia
American Musician
Definitely practice in the mirror before you attempt it. You have to use your body in the upright position, you can use your knees for support and that's the only way you can twerk.
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Georg Brandes
Danish Critic
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
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W. Bruce Cameron
American Author
Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
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Elias Canetti
Swiss Author
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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George Henry Lewes
English Philosopher
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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Aeschylus
Greek Poet
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
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Thomas Becket
English Clergyman
Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?
Quote examples
Emmitt Smith
American Athlete
I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.
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Jos Buttler
English Athlete
Your core holds you upright; it helps you bend and twist and jump; it helps you transfer power through your body; and it strengthens your posture, whether you are batting, sitting at a desk or running around a park.
Quote examples
Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
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Big Freedia
American Musician
Definitely practice in the mirror before you attempt it. You have to use your body in the upright position, you can use your knees for support and that's the only way you can twerk.
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Georg Brandes
Danish Critic
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
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W. Bruce Cameron
American Author
Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
Quote examples
Elias Canetti
Swiss Author
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Quote examples
George Henry Lewes
English Philosopher
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
Quote examples
Aeschylus
Greek Poet
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Example 1 of 10
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