upright
IPA: ʌprˈaɪt
noun
- Any vertical part of a structure.
- (sports) A goal post.
- (slang) A leg
- A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (informal) An upright piano.
- (informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.
- (obsolete, hunting, dialect, Britain) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.
- A surname.
- Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
verb
- (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
adjective
- Vertical; erect
- In its proper orientation; not overturned.
- Greater in height than breadth.
- (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
adverb
- In or into an upright position.
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Examples of "upright" in Sentences
- Today is osteoporosis-pill-day and I spent my half-hour (no food, no drink, remain upright) writing to them.
- Mr. Woods was raised by his mother in what he calls an "upright Southern Baptist" environment in Manchester, Ga.
- In this unparalleled instance of divine grace, the upright is a ransom for the transgressors, the just for the unjust.
- God; the prayer of the upright is his delight, and therefore, we may hope, shall avail much, if it be an effectual fervent prayer.
- The prayer of the upright is as much his delight as ever it was, and the promises which are pleaded and put in suit in prayer are still yea and amen, inviolably sure.
- He has assured us that the prayer of the upright is his delight; he smelled a sweet savour from Noah's sacrifice, and the spiritual sacrifices are no less acceptable, 1 Pet. ii.
- Therefore the prayer of the upright is his delight, because he is a friend of God, and he loves him who, though he have not yet attained, is following after righteousness, aiming at it and pressing towards it, as St. Paul, Phil. iii.
- So it might seem that I have better things to do than attempt to remain upright on a rocking boat about 90 miles from Cuba, some of the greatest gamefish in the world swimming in waters around me, preoccupied with a tiny fish wriggling in my hand.
- The stupid lowly, and the humble lowly, only, went down on its knees at the penitent form, admitted its pathological weight and hurt of sin, eliminated and purged all its bafflements, and walked forth again upright under the sun, child-like and pure, upborne by Abel Ah Yo's god's arm around it.
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