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Definition: Upright |
UprightAdjective1. In a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post". 2. Of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass. 3. Erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back". 4. Maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many buildings were still standing". 5. Upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright". Noun1. A vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights". 2. A piano with a vertical sounding board. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "upright" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Upright \Up"right`\, adjective. [Anglo-Saxon upright, uppriht. See Up, and Right, adjective]. (Websters 1913) |
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Mechanical Engineering | A standard having a straight axis, e. g. of a planer or of a boring mill. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:post. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | UPRIGHT. Go upright; a word used by shoemakers, taylors and their servants, when any money is given to make them drink, and signifies, Bring it all out in liquor, though the donor intended less, and expects change, or some of his money, to be returned. Th. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: UprightSynonyms: erect (adj), good (adj), just (adj), standing (adj), straight (adj), unbent (adj), unbowed (adj), unsloped (adj), virtuous (adj), upright piano (n), vertical (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: falling (adj), unerect (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Probity | Adjective: upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious; virtuous; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white. |
Support | Post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb. |
Verticality | Verb: be vertical; Adjective: stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand upright; stick up, cock up. |
Adjective: vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright; rampant; standing up; Verb: rectangular, orthogonal; a. | |
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Crosswords: Upright |
| English words defined with "upright": Bolt upright ♦ place upright ♦ upright piano. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "upright": BOLT UPRIGHT ♦ DIMBER DAMBER UPRIGHT MAN ♦ THREE-PENNY UPRIGHT ♦ UPRIGHT MAN. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "upright": Enorthotrope ♦ stature, stela, Straight-pight. (references) |
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Screenplays | Ladies and gentlemen, please return your seats and tray-tables to their full upright positions, and extinguish all smoking material, as we're about to land in the red zone. (SpaceCamp; writing credit: Patrick Bailey; Larry B. Williams) And if you cut them down--and you're just the man to do it--do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt) | |
Lyrics | Don't get upright (Dancing On the Ceiling; performing artist: Lionel Richie) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Upright (1999) | |
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 | Getting upright cast as sounding stand passes position of lead Off of ISIS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pond cypress or prairie sentinel - Taxodium ascendens. A deciduous conifer with upright growing needles. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Intermediate age community of upright bryozoa, reteporellina sp., oysters ( mostly covered), and tunicates. The large, tan, upright bryozoa usually breakaway from the surface once they become too big. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Skeleton of upright coral colony. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Compact orange pepper plants bear upright, pungent fruit. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by John Stommel.. |  | Surgeon's Upright Case. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Under construction by James Eads, at St. Louis, Missouri, prior to October 1861. This view looks along the main deck on one gunboat, with its boilers in the foreground and casemate timbers at the sides. Another vessel is beyond, with some spar deck beams atop the casemate side timbers and upright framing in place for her wheel box. The four ships of this class built at St. Louis were Carondelet, Louisville, Pittsburg and Saint Louis. Note flagpole in the left background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Aerial view of the disaster area, looking northward, seen from a plane assigned to USS Aroostook (CM-3). Visible are six of the seven destroyers that ran aground on Honda Point during the night of 8 September 1923. They are: USS Fuller (DD-297), at left; USS Woodbury (DD-309), just ahead of Fuller; USS Young (DD-312), capsized in the center of the view; USS Chauncey (DD-296), upright just ahead of Young; USS Nicholas (DD-311), beyond the rocks in the center; and USS Delphy (DD-261), capsized in the small cove between Chauncey and Nicholas. The remaining ship, USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), is out of sight behind the rocky point, astern of Nicholas. Credit: NAVY. |
 | "Shep" a collie dog which chewed off his front legs when caught in a trap, walking upright with John Rattigan, Omaha, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Football player, upright with ball. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Aesop | The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. |
Benjamin Franklin | It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. |
Colton | The upright man, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. |
Confucius | Better be upright with poverty than depraved with abundance. |
Dante Alighieri | O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! |
Ernest Kenan | For every man, that religion is good, which makes him gentle, upright and kind. |
James Russell Lowell | Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. |
John Donne | Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright. |
Seneca | The upright judge condemns the crime but does not hate the criminal. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And so whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any common-wealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees; by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home, only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries, and secure the community from inroads and invasion. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | And so saying, she went off to the other end of the shop, and set the egg upright on a shelf. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Err, falter, sin, but be upright. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Its front foot caught a piece of quartz and little by little the shell pulled over and flopped upright. |
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Health | The investigators were alerted to this possibility when they noticed an overlap between their patients with CFS and those who had NMH. NMH can be induced by using tilt table testing, which involves laying the patient horizontally on a table and then tilting the table upright to 70 degrees for 45 minutes while monitoring blood pressure and heart rate. Persons with NMH will develop lowered blood pressure under these conditions, as well as other characteristic symptoms, such as lightheadedness, visual dimming, or a slow response to verbal stimuli. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | Amnesty International has reported the existence of "punishment cells," too low to allow standing upright and too small for lying down flat, where prisoners are kept for up to several weeks for breaking prison rules. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. This was a common mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is still in high favor in China and other parts of Asia. Down to the beginning of the fifteenth century it was widely employed in "churching" heretics and schismatics. Wolecraft calls it the "stoole of repentynge," and among the common people it was jocularly known as "riding the one legged horse." Ludwig Salzmann informs us that in Thibet impalement is considered the most appropriate punishment for crimes against religion; and although in China it is sometimes awarded for secular offences, it is most frequently adjudged in cases of sacrilege. To the person in actual experience of impalement it must be a matter of minor importance by what kind of civil or religious dissent he was made acquainted with its discomforts; but doubtless he would feel a certain satisfaction if able to contemplate himself in the character of a weather-cock on the spire of the True Church. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The decisions of upright and enlightened tribunals fall equally on all whose crimes subject them, by a fair interpretation of the law, to its censure. |
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| "Upright" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 67.26% of the time. "Upright" is used about 949 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 67.26% | 638 | 10,210 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 32.32% | 307 | 16,496 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.42% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 949 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "upright" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Upright | Last name | 300 | 25,947 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "upright". | |||
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| Justin | N/A | French | Just or upright |
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Expressions using "upright": become upright ♦ bolt upright ♦ hold oneself upright ♦ hold upright ♦ place upright ♦ put upright ♦ set upright ♦ stand upright ♦ standing upright ♦ upright chair ♦ upright chess ♦ upright drill ♦ upright format ♦ upright man ♦ upright piano ♦ upright shave ♦ upright tombstone ♦ upright woman. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "upright": bolt-upright, bowed-and-upright, near-upright, semi-upright, still-upright. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | eerlik (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vertikal (apeak, erect, Plumb, vertical), pozicion vertikal, në këmbë (afoot, endways, endwise, on the hoof, upstanding), kasë (case, coffer, safe), i drejtë (candid, correct, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, erect, even, fair, impartial, just, kosher, lank, regular, right, Square, stand up, straight, straightaway, true, upstanding, virtuous, white). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مستقيم (correct, direct, erect, honest, right, stand up, straight, straightforward, through), معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, erect, genial, gentle, low key, measured, meek, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate), قائم (current, erect, existing, getting up, situated, standing), وضع عمودي, عمودي (columnar, perpendicular, plumb, steep, straight, vertical), شىء عمودي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | zintzo (honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | колона (column, pier, pillar, shaft, shank, tige, verge), кол (pale, picket, pile, piquet, pole, spile), отвесно (apeak, sheer), отвесен (abrupt, normal, perpendicular, precipitatious, sheer, up and down, vertical), прът (club, pivot, pole, rod, stick), право (authorization, claim, clean, directly, due, fair, flush, jurisprudence, jus, law, perquisite, place, pretension, right, slap, smack, spang, straight, straightway), прав (continuous, direct, erect, flat, forehanded, right, stand up, standing, straight, swerveless, undeviating, unseated, upstanding), порядъчен (considerable, nice, orderly, respectable, sober, steady, straightforward, tidy, well-regulated), почтен (clean, hoary, honest, honorable, honorary, honourable, law abiding, loyal, orderly, reputable, respectable, right, savoury, upstanding, worthy), подпора (abut, abutment, brace, bracing, bracket, counterfort, jamb, pillar, post, prop, puncheon, rest, shore, sprag, stand, stock, stull, support, tree), пиано (piano, pianoforte), изправено (endways, endwise, straight), изправен (erect, go, soldierlike, soldierly, stand up, straight, upstanding), добросъвестен (conscientious, earnest, scrupulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | sincer (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 顜 (honest, subject, to inscribe, to superscribe, topic), 矗 (lofty), 端正 (correct, proper, regular), 直立 (erect), 直 (directly, frank, straight, straightly, vertical), 挺直, 正直 (honest, upstanding), 正值 (honest), 正 (Chinese 1st month of year, correct, just, main, principle, straight), 剛正 (honest), 婞 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpříma (plump, straight, up), vztyèený (erect, upset), vzpřímený (erect), tyè (bar, pole, post, rail, rod, scape, shank, staff, stick), svisle (perpendicularly, uprightly, vertically), sloupek (banister, column, jamb, puncheon), rovnì (straight, up), poctivý (decent, fair, honest, honorable, honourable, righteous, Square, straight, straightforward, upstanding), přímý (above board, direct, downright, firsthand, forthright, head on, immediate, nonstop, non-stop, outright, outspoken, plainspoken, Plumb, plump, point blank, right, Square, straight, straightforward, through), kolmý (Plumb, sheer, vertical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tro (account, accredit, belief, believe, deem, faithful, guess, loyal, presume, suppose, surmise), ret stander (housing, standard, straight standard), mast (mast), ærlig (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trouwhartig (above-board, faithful, loyal, sincere), trouw (adherence, faithful, loyal, nasty), staander (column, cutter column, housing, pillar, post, standard, straight standard, strut, stud), net (above-board, beautiful, beautifully, cleanly cut, elegant, exactly, fair, fine, handsome, honest, just, just now, lovely, neat, net, network, okay, precise, precize, right), loyaal (faithful, loyal), getrouw (faithful, loyal), geleider (conductor, conduit, leader), fatsoenlýk (above-board, decent, decently, fitting, honest, proper, properly, suitable), eerzaam (above-board, deserving, honest, worthy), eerlýk (above-board, brave, gallant, honest), degelýk (above-board, firm, honest, solid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | heiðurligur (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیکوکار (Benefactor, Beneficent, Righteous, Samaritan), عمودی (Erect, Lineal, Perpendicular, Right, Straight, Vertical), راست (Bolt, Erect, Prick, Right, Sheer, Straight, Straightforward, True, Wooden), راد (Honest, Magnaimous), درستکار (Right), درست (Accurate, Authentic, Conscionable, Correct, Entire, Even, Exact, Genuine, Integral, Just, Legitimate, Orthodox, Outandout, Perfect, Plumb, Right, Smackdab, Sock, Sound, Straight, Straightforward, True, Trustworthy, Valid, Veracious, Whole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uskollinen (devoted, faithful, loyal, true), rehellinen (above-board, forthright, honest, sincere, square, straight), pylväs (column, pillar, post). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | montant (uphill, upstream), honnête (upstanding), droit (upstanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | earlik (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ständer (hard on, pillar, pillars, post, rack, stand, stator), senkrecht (orthographical, perpendicular, perpendicular (to), perpendicularly, plumb, plumbly, sheer, vertical), rechtschaffen (above-board, honest, righteous, righteously, uncorrupted, uprightly, upstanding), bieder (above-board, faithful, honest, loyal, respectable, unadventurous, unadventurously, worthy), aufrecht (direct, directly, endwise, erect, straigh ahead, straight, up, uprightly, upstanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όρθιοσ (erect, Matin, unflagging, up, upstanding), έντιμοσ (equitable, honest, honorable, honourable, respectable, Square, straightforward, upstanding), ευθύσ (at once, candid, direct, downright, outright, straight), ευθεία ανάρτηση (housing, standard, straight standard), ακέριοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מאו ך (orthogonal, perpendicular, sheer, vertical), לישר (be straight, go straight, right), תמיר (erect, slender, svelte, tall, upstanding, willowy), תמים (blameless, complete, entire, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naןve, simple, unsophisticated, whole), זקוף (erect, on end, sit up, stand up, standing, straight, upstanding), "ו'ן (decent, equitable, fair, reasonable, seemly, sporting, straight, suitable), צ"יק (acquitted, innocent, just, pious, right, righteous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | becsületes (above board, above-board, fair, fair and square, fair dealing, honest, respectable, sound, straight, straightforward, true, trustful, trustworthy, trusty, white). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | heiðarlegur (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | luhur (glorious, lofty (ideals), supreme), jujur (honest, impartial, kosher, truth), cacak (pinch, swipe, vertical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | verticale (handstand, orthographical, perpendicular, Plumb, vertical), onesto (aboveboard, above-board, decent, fair, frank, honest, just, moral, right, Square, straightforward, upstanding, virtuous), montante (incoming, jamb, post, strut, uppercut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "い (manly, pure, sportsmanlike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"ぜ" (appeal, entreaty, large padded kimono, one eye, petition), すっくと (erect, straight), すぐ (easily, honest, immediately, right, soon), なおき (straight), ますぐ (direct, erect, frank, honest, straight), まっすぐ (direct, erect, frank, honest, straight), せいりつ (arrangements, coming into existence, completion, establishment), いさぎよい (manly, pure, sportsmanlike), りょうし"てき (fair, honest), アップライト , ものがたい (faithful, honest, reliable), ちょくりつ (erect, perpendicular, rise perpendicularly, stand erect, vertical), え"ちょく (perpendicular, vertical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 강직한. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | setia (faithful, loyal), jujur (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pianney jeeragh (upright piano). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | ærlig (above-board, candid, frankly, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | onèst (honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | honesto (above-board, honest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightupray uczciwy (above-board, honest). (various references) montante direito (housing, standard, straight standard), montante (flux, sum, total, value), em posição vertical (endlong), direito (claim, correct, dexter, downright, dyed-in-the, endlong, entitlement, erect, freehearted, jurisprudence, justice, law, lien, respectable, right, righteous, righthand, royalty, standing, stand-up, straight, straightaway, straightforward, title, unswerving, upstanding, vertical, warrant). (various references) vertical (erect, pedimental, perpendicularly, Plumb, stand up, upstanding, vertical, vertically), smirnã (myrrh), ridicat (advanced, erect, harsh, high, long, raised, raising, severe, standing, stiff), onorabil (creditable, creditably, earnest, gentlemanlike, honest, honestly, honorable, honorably, honourable, honourably, reputable, respectable, useful, venerable, worthy), onest (candid, foursquare, honest, honorable, honourable, mensurable, Square), montant (beam, high, mullion, post), integru (honest, righteous), drept ca lumânarea, drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced), corect (accurate, aright, correct, correctly, exact, fair, faultless, flawless, honest, just, justly, mensurable, perfect, precise, right, rightful, rightly, Square), cinstit (above board, candid, chaste, clean-fingered, correctly, fair, foursquare, gentlemanlike, guileless, honest, honestly, honest-minded, honorable, honourable, mensurable, on the level, on the up and up, open, reliable, reputable, respectable, righteous, scrupulous, simple, sincere, sincerely, sporting, sportsmanlike, Square, straightforward, true, trustful, truthful, unfeigned, venerable, virtuous), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome). (various references) прямой (candid, direct, downright, erect, face-to-face, first hand, first-level, flat, forthright, free-spoken, lank, outright, outspoken, peer-to-peer, plain, plain dealer, straight, straight out, straightaway, straighted, straightforward, straight-out, up and down). (various references) treibhireach (sincere). (various references) uspravan (erect, ortho-, plumb, stand up, straight, upstanding, vertical), ispravno (correctly, lawfully, order: in order, square, uprightly), čestit (honest, reputable). (various references) honrado (aboveboard, above-board, decent, fair, honest, honorable, honored, honourable, honoured, moral, open-faced, over the counter, plain, respectable, righteous, right-minded, right-thinking, sportsmanlike, Square, straight, straightforward). (various references) upprätt (erect, perpendicular), rak (direct, erect, shift, straight), rättskaffens (honest, honestly, honorable, honourable, just, righteous), pelare (column, pillar). (various references) namuslu (fair, honest, honorable, honourable, level, modest, pure, respectable, untainted, vestal, virtuous), kuyruksuz piyano, kalkık (erect, raised, stand up, tip-tilted, turnup, upturned), direk (atlas, backbone, beam, column, mast, pillar, pole, post, pylon, spar, stake, stanchion, stick), dikey (apeak, orthogonal, perpendicular, Plumb, sheer, vertical), dik olarak (endways, endwise, on end, perpendicularly, straight), dik duran şey, dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, rough, scarped, sheer, Square, stand up, steep, stiff, straight, up, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), dürüst (above board, candid, christian, conscientious, dinkum, direct, downright, fair, faithful, Frank, guileless, honest, incorruptible, jannock, just, level, moral, on the square, open, plain, regular, right, righteous, right-minded, sincere, single minded, single-hearted, sporting, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight out, straightforward, upfront, upstanding, virtuous). (various references) справедливо (by rights, impartially, justly, right, rightfully, rightly), чесний (above board, bona fide, clean-fingered, clean-handed, conscientious, fair, fair dealing, faithful, honest, honorable, honourable, scrupulous, sincere, single minded, stainless, straight, straightforward, white-handed), вертикальний (downright, non-laddering, nonrun, plum, vertical), піаніно, підняти у вертикальне положення, підпора (affluent, brace, bracket, chock, prop, rack), прямовисний (direct, mural, perpendicular, precipitous, prone, sheer, vertical), прямо (above board, avowedly, baldly, bang, barely, broadly, clean, direct, directly, flush, forthright, outright, outspokenly, plainly, plump, point blank, roundly, straight, through). (various references) vuông góc ngay thẳng, trụ đứng, thẳng đứng (endlong, plumb, sheer, vertical), liêm khiết (clean-fingered, incorruptible), chính trực, đứng thẳng; đứng, đứng (stand-up). (various references) uniawn (just, right, straight). 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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adstabant, adstabit, adstabo, adstans, adstantes, adstanti, adstantibus, adstantium, adstat, adstetit, adstiterunt, adstitit, astet, consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consistunt, constiterant, erectus, honesta, honestarum, honestas, honeste, honestiori, honestum, ingenuus, innocens, innocente, innocentem, innocenter, innocentes, innocenti, innocentia, innocentis, innocentium, innocentum, justus, pius, probus, rectus, sustentatus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | rihtwis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dikaiosunh andrwn orqwn ruetai autouV th de apwleia autwn aliskontai paranomoi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Iustitia rectorum liberabit eos et in insidiis suis capientur iniqui |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The riytwisnesse of riyt men shal deliuere them; and wicke men in ther aspies shul be take. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Ang pagkamatarung sa tawong matul-id maoy magaluwas kanila; Apan ang maluibon malit-ag sa ilang kaugalingong kasal-anan. |
| Chinese | 正 直 人 的 義 、 必 拯 救 自 己 ． 奸 詐 人 必 陷 在 自 己 的 罪 孽 中 。 |
| Croatian | Poštene izbavlja pravda njihova, a bezbožnici se hvataju u svoju lakomost. |
| Danish | Retsindiges Retfærd bringer dem Frelse, troløse fanges i egen Attrå. |
| Dutch | De gerechtigheid der vromen zal hen redden; maar de trouwelozen worden gevangen in hun verkeerdheid. |
| Finnish | Oikeamieliset vapahtaa heidän vanhurskautensa, mutta uskottomat vangitsee heidän oma himonsa. |
| French | La justice des hommes droits les délivre, Mais les méchants sont pris par leur malice. |
| German | Die Gerechtigkeit der Frommen wird sie erretten; aber die Verächter werden gefangen in ihrer Bosheit. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè yon moun serye fè sa ki dwat, sa ap sove l'. Men, moun k'ap mache bay moun koutba, y'ap pran nan move jwèt y'ap fè a. |
| Hungarian | Az igazaknak igazságok megszabadítja õket; de az õ kivánságokban fogatnak meg a hitetlenek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang jujur selamat karena ketulusan hatinya; orang yang tak dapat dipercaya, terperosok oleh keserakahannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa kebenaran orang-orang saleh itu meluputkan mereka itu, tetapi orang nakal terkena oleh perangkapnya sendiri. |
| Italian | La giustizia degli uomini retti li salva, nella cupidigia restano presi i perfidi. |
| Korean | 악 인 은 죽 을 때 에 그 소 망 이 끊 어 지 나 니 불 의 의 소 망 이 없 어 지 느 니 라 |
| Maori | Ma te tika o te hunga tika ka mawhiti ai ratou; ka mau ia nga poka ke i runga i to ratou kino. |
| Norwegian | De opriktiges rettferdighet frelser, men de troløse fanges i sin egen ondskap. |
| Rumanian | Nevinovqyia oamenilor fqrq prihanq ki scapq, dar cei rqi sknt prinwi de rqutatea lor. |
| Russian | рТБЧ"Б ТСНП"ХЫОЩИ У БУЕФ ЙИ, Б 'ЕЪЪБЛПООЙЛЙ 'Х"ХФ ХМПЧМЕОЩ 'ЕЪЪБЛПОЙЕН УЧПЙН. |
| Spanish | Su justicia librará a los rectos, pero los traicioneros quedarán atrapados por su codicia. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "upright": uprighted, uprighting, uprightly, uprightness, uprightnesses, uprights. (additional references) | |
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"Upright" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oright, spricht, Ukrit, uplight, uprigth, uprite, urit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "upright" (pronounced uprī"t or u"prī't) |
| 4 | -p r ī" t | sprite. |
| 3 | -r ī" t | alright, bright, contrite, forthright, fright, outright, overwrite, rewrite, right, rite, trite, Wright, write. |
| 4 | -p r ī' t | shipwright. |
| 3 | -r ī' t | birthright, copyright, downright, fluorite, meteorite, playwright, underwrite, Wainwright, wheelwright. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: upgirt. | |
-2 letters: girth, gript, grith, right, thrip. | |
-3 letters: girt, grip, grit, hurt, phut, pith, prig, pugh, puri, ruth, thir, thru, thug, trig, trip, trug. | |
-4 letters: ghi, gip, git, gut, hip, hit, hug, hup, hut, phi, pht, pig, pit, piu, pug, pur, put, rig, rip, rug, rut, tip, tug, tui, tup, ugh. | |
-5 letters: hi, it, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: uprights. | |
+2 letters: uprighted, uprightly. | |
+3 letters: groupthink, sprightful, superlight, supertight, triumphing, uprighting, upthrowing. | |
+4 letters: autographic, groupthinks, parachuting, superbright, thoroughpin, upgathering, uprightness, upthrusting. | |
+5 letters: autographies, autographing, outpreaching, sprightfully, superheating, thoroughpins, upholstering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 72 69 67 68 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .--. .-. .. --. .... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p r i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 0072 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55828475737486 |
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