Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- 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.
Adverbi
- In or into an upright position.
Substantiivi
- 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) Short for upright piano
- (informal) Short for upright arcade game cabinet
- Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner.
- (obsolete, hunting, dialect, British) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.
Verbi
- (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
Esimerkit
- I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.
- Fab[ell]: What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ſtrikes my hart! // My ſtiffned haire ſtands vpright on my head, // As doe the briſtles of a porcupine.
- Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright.
- Upright posture evolved well before an enlarged brain in hominids.
- Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright.
- we need to put the lamp upright.
- an upright gentleman.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | uprights |
| Komparatiivi | more upright |
| Superlatiivi | most upright |