Upside Down

Definition: Upside Down

Upside Down

Adverb

1. In an inverted manner; "the box was lying on the floor upside down".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Contrariety

Invert, reverse, turn the tables; turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end, turn upside down, turn inside out.

Disorder

Adverb: irregularly; Adjective: by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down.

Inversion

Adjective: inverted; Verb: wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out, upside down; bottom upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous.

Crosswords: Upside Down

Once a year we turn all paris upside down. Ev'ry man's a king and ev'ry king's a clown! (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi)

If you tell me to turn my frown upside down, I swear I'm gonna vomit. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I thought there was one thing that you should know, when they take the castle the are going to hang a flag upside down (The Last Castle; writing credit: David Scarpa)

I was sound asleep, and they burst into my room and turned everything upside down! (Clan des Siciliens, Le; writing credit: José Giovanni; Auguste Le Breton)

I wouldn't have you if you were hung with diamonds upside down! (Female on the Beach; writing credit: Robert Hill; Richard Alan Simmons)

Upside down you're turning me (Upside Down; performing artist: Diana Ross)

My whole world is upside down (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Am I right side up or upside down (Crush; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

And see mine turning upside down (Throwing It All Away; performing artist: Genesis)

It flipped my whole life upside down (The Best Man I Can Be; performing artist: Ginuwine)

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): "Do not turn upside down. (references; author: unknown)

Upside Down (1919)

He Likes Things Upside Down (1913)

Or The Human Flies Upside Down (1899)

Upside Down (2001)

The World Turned Upside Down (1985)

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Books

• War Plays: The World Turned Upside Down, the Bomb in Brewery Street, Corunna! (Modern Playwrights,) (reference)

• 'Tex': How Tex Ewalt, Two-Gun Man, Philosopher, Poet, and One-Time Companion of Hopalong Cassidy Turned a Whole Community Upside Down, and Dealt retr (reference)

• Turning Around: The Upside Down Kids: Helping Dyslexic Kids Overcome Their Disorder (reference)

• The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza (reference)

• Prelude to Glory: The World Turned Upside Down (World Turned Upside Down, 6) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Family Upside Down (reference)

• Wai Lana Yoga: Upside Down (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The World Upside Down (reference)

• Turn It Upside Down (reference)

• Upside Down [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Truck No. 400 turned upside down in a previously dry creek Caught in a freshet and floated 200 yards downstream Triangulation party of Maurice A. Hecht. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A close-up of a crab pot with fine mesh. The crab pot is upside down. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Photographic mosaic of the ship's remains, composed of individual photographs taken from the research ship Alcoa Seaprobe in April 1974, when Monitor's wreck was initially discovered. Monitor lies upside down, in badly damaged condition, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. In this image, her bow is to the right, with her turret displaced and visible in the lower left, with the hull resting atop it. Credit: NAVY.

F-4 in drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 1 September 1915, after she had been raised from over 300 feet of water and towed into port. Note the large implosion hole in her port side, and the salvage pontoons used to support her during the final lift. This view shows F-4's port bow. She is upside down, rolled to starboard approximately 120 degrees from the vertical. Photographed by Kodagraph, Honolulu. Credit: NAVY.

Naval personnel examine the large implosion hole in F-4's port side, in drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, circa late August or early September 1915. She had been raised from over 300 feet of water and towed into port. This view was taken from off the port bow, showing the submarine's port side diving plane in the center. She is upside down, rolled to starboard approximately 120 degrees from the vertical. Credit: NAVY.

View of F-4's port side name plate, taken in drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, circa late August or early September 1915, after she had been raised from over 300 feet of water and towed into port. These figures are mounted on the submarine's port bow, and are shown upside down, as she was drydocked rolled to starboard approximately 120 degrees from the vertical. Credit: NAVY.

In a scene from the movie, "A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum," Zero Mostel, standing behind a wall with a perplexed expression, listens to Michael Crawford, who is hanging upside down. Credit: Library of Congress.

Art Brown and family. Brown family at swings with upside down boy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Basketball player of the Palace Club holding basketball upside down with one hand, Washington, D.C., area. Credit: Library of Congress.

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She handed the tablets to Clara, who gazed at them with eyes so dim with tears that she did not at first notice that she was holding them upside down.

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Human Rights

Paraguay

In a September report, Amnesty stated that youths were kicked, beaten, suspended upside down, had plastic bags put over their heads, beaten on the back with a hammer, and had their feet scalded. (references)

Kenya

Common methods of torture practiced by police included hanging persons upside down for long periods, genital mutilation, electric shocks, and deprivation of air by submersion of the head in water. (references)

Namibia

On April 9, NDF soldiers arrested Johannes Sondaha Kampumburu in Rundu on suspicion of collaborating with UNITA; during his detention, he reportedly was hung upside down by his legs and beat with a rawhide whip called a sjambok. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "upside down": be upside down ♦ in an upside down position ♦ run upside down ♦ To turn upside down ♦ turn everything upside down ♦ turn smth. upside down ♦ turn upside down. Additional references.

Albanian

kokëposhtë (topsy turvy), i përmbysur (fallen, inverted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏رأسا على عقب (topsy turvy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

с главата надолу (topsy turvy), в пълен безпорядък (higgledy-piggledy, topsy turvy), наопаки (awry, backwards, contra, contrariwise, criss cross, inside out, topsy turvy). (various references)

Czech

zvrácený (perverse), vzhùru nohama (topsy turvy), viset obrácenì, převrácený (overturned), obrácený (counter, inverse, revers, reverse, turned over), naruby (inside out, upside-down). (various references)

Danish

denne bundfaeldning af krystaller er blevet demonstreret ved forsoeg med udstoebninger,der er blevet vendt paa hovedet,foer den fuldstaendige stoerkning (this precipitation of crystals has been clearly demonstrated by tests in which castings are turned upside down before solidification is complete). (various references)

Dutch

omgekeerd beeld (inverted image, inverted picture, upside down image), deze precipitatie van kristallen is duidelijk aangetoond door proeven waarbij gietstukken werden omgekeerd voordat zij volledig waren gestold (this precipitation of crystals has been clearly demonstrated by tests in which castings are turned upside down before solidification is complete). (various references)

Finnish

ylösalaisin (over, the wrong side up, topsy-turvy), väärinpäin (the wrong way, wrong), sikinsokin (in a mess, pell-mell, topsy-turvy), sekaisin (all mixed up, in confusion, jumbled together), nurin päin (inside out), mullin mallin (topsy-turvy), kumollaan (capsized, overturned), alassuin. (various references)

French

renversé, � l'envers. (various references)

German

verkehrt herum (in an upside down position), verkehrt (amiss, consorts, contrary, incorrect, inverse, inversely, inverted, opposite, perverse, perversely, topsy turvy, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Greek 

άνω κάτω (higgledy-piggledy, topsy turvy, upset), ανάποδα (about, back to front, backwards, by contraries, topsy turvy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ופך (overturned, reversed), �"פוך (contrary, converse, inverse, inversion, inverted, obverse, overturned, reverse, tumble, turned upside down, turning over). (various references)

Hungarian

felfordítva, felfordított (topsy turvy, topsy-turvy), feje tetejére állított (topsy turvy). (various references)

Indonesian

menjungkirkan (turn upside down). (various references)

Italian

sottosopra (topsy turvy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逆様 (inversion), 逆さま (inversion), 逆さ (inversion, reverse), 裏�"し (inside out), 反様 (inside out), �'様 (inversion), �'しま (inversion, reverse), �'さま (inversion), 俯向け (lying face down), 俯向き (lying face down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さかしま (inversion, reverse), さかさま (inversion), さかさ (inversion, inverted, reverse, reversed, upside-down), うつむけ (lying face down), うつむき (lying face down), うらがえし (inside out), かいさま (inside out). (various references)

Pig Latin

ideupsay ownday

Portuguese

virado (over, turned, upset), remexido, invertido (converse, invert, inverted, reverse, reversed, upside-down), em desordem (helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, pell-mell, uproarious), de pernas para o ar (head over heels, topsy-turvy), de cabeça para baixo (topsy-turvy). (various references)

Romanian

talmeş-balmeş (confusion, farrago, fustian, glory-hole, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hurry-scurry, jumble, mix up, muddle, olio, topsy turvy, welter), rãsturnat (head over heels, scattered, upset), cu susul în jos (bottom up, pell mell, topsy turvy), cu capul în jos (head downwards), în dezordine (anyhow, hugger mugger, littery, out of order, scattered). (various references)

Russian 

вверх дном (bottom up, in a mess, topsy turvy, upside-down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tumbe, naopako (awry, topsy turvy), naopačke (inside out), naglavačke. (various references)

Spanish

de otro modo (else), al revés (backward, backwards, on the contrary, reverse, reversed, the other way around, upside-down, vice-versa, wrong). (various references)

Swedish

uppochnedvänd (inverted, reversed, topsy turvy, upturned), upp och ner (topsy turvy, up-and-down), huller om buller (helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, pell mell, pell-mell, topsy turvy), felvänd (back to front). (various references)

Turkish

ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), tepetaklak (head over heels, inverted, topsyturvy), baş aşağı (downward). (various references)

Ukrainian

у безладді, перевернутий догори дном (topsy turvy), догори дном. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: disendow, disowned, downside, swounded, unpoised.

-3 letters: despond, dispend, dowdies, indowed, noddies, poinded, pounded, sounded, swidden, swouned, unipods, unposed, unsowed, upwinds, windups, winesop, wounded.

-4 letters: didoes, diodes, disown, donsie, doused, downed, dowsed, dwined, dwines, endows, indows, indued, indues, noised, nowise, nudies, onside, opined, opines, poinds, poised, ponded, ponied, ponies, pounds, pseudo, puisne, sendup, sniped.