upper
IPA: ˈʌpɝ
noun
- A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
- Anything that cheers one up.
- The upper portion of something
- (shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
- (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
- Someone with higher social standing
- A senior student.
- That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
- A tooth in the upper jaw.
- A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
- An upper berth or bunk.
- (Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
adjective
- At a higher level, rank or position.
- Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent
- (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
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Examples of "upper" in Sentences
- The term upper layer is sometimes used to refer to any layer above another layer in the OSI model.
- I'm going to assume by the term upper thighs, you're referring to entire upper leg area (all the way around the leg).
- In other words, if the word would get around — there were two separate departments in the weave room, what they called the upper and the lower end.
- In other words, if the word would get around -- there were two separate departments in the weave room, what they called the upper and the lower end.
- The first four tones of any diatonic scale (major or minor) are often referred to as the _lower tetrachord_ [14] and the upper four tones as the _upper tetrachord_.
- "I may say that nearly invariably the order is -- 1st, the lower front incissors [cutting teeth], then the upper front, then the _upper_ two lateral incissors, and that not uncommonly
- Two great doors are opened, and Madame leads the way into what she calls her upper and private parlor, a hall of some fifty feet by thirty, in the centre of which a sumptuously decorated table is set out.
- ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, in speaking with several political analysts who look at these voters in the south, they really see, kind of a divide, between what they call the upper south and the lower south.
- SIR THOMAS MORE, the famous Chancellor, who preserved his humor and wit to the last moment, when he came to be executed on Tower-hill, the headsman demanded his upper garment as his fee; "Ah! friend," said he, taking off his cap, "that, I think, is my _upper_ garment."
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