Upside

Definition: Upside

Upside

Noun

1. The highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted".

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

Date "upside" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Upside \Up"side`\, noun. The upper side; the part that is uppermost. To be upsides with, to be even with. [Proverbial English and Scottish]. (references)

Synonyms: Upside

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

Once a year we turn all paris upside down (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)

They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son. I've never understood why that is; frankly, I can see an upside to it (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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)

But your not a rat so call it an upside. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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 Town/Swingaround (1968)

He Likes Things Upside Down (1913)

Or The Human Flies Upside Down (1899)

Upside Downtown (2002)

The World Turned Upside Down (1985)

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

Books

• Flying Upside Down: True Tales of an Antarctic Pilot (reference)

• How a Fly Walks Upside Down: ...And Other Curious Facts (reference)

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

• The Berenstain Bears Inside Outside Upside Down (Bright & Early Board Books) (reference)

• The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Family Upside Down (reference)

• Wai Lana Yoga: Upside Down (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Upside Downside (reference)

• The Leaves Turn Upside Down [EP] (reference)

• The World Upside Down (reference)

• Turn It Upside Down (reference)

• Upside Down [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

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.

Halftone reproduction of a close-up photograph published in the "Strand Magazine", 1st Quarter 1901, showing dents in the monitor's turret armor made by Confederate cannon shot during the Civil War. These same dents are visible in Photo # NH 59436, taken circa 1864-65. An interesting optical illusion can be seen if this image is turned upside down. Credit: NAVY.

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.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Cars are very well equipped now, so niche products are more of an important area. The upside of this is that these niche products tend to have high prices and high profits. (references)

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": 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 ♦ upside down ♦ upside potential. Additional references.

Beginning with "upside": upside-down, upside-down cake, upside-downed.

Albanian

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

Arabic 

مقلوب (inverted, upside down), ‏رأسا على عقب (topsy turvy, upside down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

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

Chinese 

上部 (upper, upside-down), 上邊 . (various references)

Czech

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

Danish

thoraxmave (upside-down stomach), risiko for stigning (upside risk), omvendt tag (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof), hausserisiko (upside risk), haussepotentiale (upside potential), 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

omkeerdak (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof), omgekeerd dak (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof), omgekeerd beeld (inverted image, inverted picture, upside down image), hausserisico (upside risk), haussepotentieel (upside potential), 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), akoestische systemen met een lange basislijn zijn gelijk aan binnenste buiten of onderste boven gekeerde systemen met een korte basislijn;één enkel baken kan bijvoorbeeld onder het schip zijn opgehangen en het schip kan zich bevinden in het midden van e (long base line acoustic systems are similar to short base line systems turned inside out or upside down;for example). (various references)

Farsi 

فوقانی (Capital, Upper, Uppish), قسمت بالاءی , بالاترین قسمت , بالا (Aloft, Ascendency, Atop, Overhead, Up). (various references)

Finnish

ylösalaisin (over, the wrong side up, topsy-turvy, upside down), väärinpäin (the wrong way, upside down, wrong), sikinsokin (in a mess, pell-mell, topsy-turvy, upside down), sekaisin (all mixed up, in confusion, jumbled together, upside down), odotettavissa oleva hinnan nousu (upside potential), nurin päin (inside out, upside down), nousun riski (upside risk), mullistaa (overthrow, revolutionize, turn upside down, upset), mullin mallin (topsy-turvy, upside down), kumollaan (capsized, overturned, upside down), kääntää nurin (reverse, turn . . inside out, turn upside down), alassuin (upside down). (various references)

French

toiture inversée (upside-down asphalt roof), risque à la hausse du prix (upside risk), risque à la hausse (upside risk), renversé (upside down), potentiel de hausse (upside potential), image renversée (upside down image), cette pluie de cristaux a été bien mise en évidence par des expériences de moulages renversés avant solidification complète (this precipitation of crystals has been clearly demonstrated by tests in which castings are turned upside down before solidification is complete), à l'envers (upside down). (various references)

German

Oberseite (top side, topside), oberhalb (above, over). (various references)

Greek 

άνω μέροσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מהופך (overturned, reversed, upside down), הפך (contrary, inverse, opposite, reverse, turn into, turn upside down), הפוך (contrary, converse, inverse, inversion, inverted, obverse, overturned, reverse, tumble, turned upside down, turning over, upside down). (various references)

Hungarian

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

Indonesian

menjungkirkan (turn upside down), membalikkan (misrepresent, place upside, reserve). (various references)

Italian

parte suprema, di sopra (above, on top, over, overhead, upstairs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

伏せる (to lay something upside down, to turn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さかしま (inversion, reverse, upside down), さかさま (inversion, upside down), さかさ (inversion, inverted, reverse, reversed, upside down, upside-down), さかになる (to turn upside down), うつぶせ (lying on one's face, upside-down), うつむける (to turn upside down, to turndownward), うつむけ (lying face down, upside down), うつむき (lying face down, upside down), うらがえし (inside out, upside down), ふせる (to cover, to go to bed, to hide, to lay, to lay something upside down, to lie down, to retire, to turn something over), かいさま (inside out, upside down), かえす (to change, to hatch, to incubate, to return something, to send back, to turn over, to turn upside down), かえる (frog, to alter, to amend, to change, to come back, to come home, to convert, to exchange, to go back, to go home, to hatch out, to interchange, to replace, to return, to revise, to send back, to substitute, to turn over, to turn upside down, to vary), けいふく (admiration for, happiness, happy event, turning upside down), とうち (equal value, equivalence, governing, government, here, placing nonessentials before essentials, reign, rule, this place, turning upside down). (various references)

Korean 

위쪽. (various references)

Pig Latin

ideupsay.(various references)

Portuguese

virar de cabeça para baixo (turn upside down), virado (over, turned, upset, upside down), transtornado (unsettled, upside-down), remexido (upside down), potencial de alta (upside potential), invertido (converse, invert, inverted, reverse, reversed, upside down, upside-down), exposição ao risco em alta (upside risk), esta precipitação de cristais foi claramente posta em evidência por experiências em moldes virados antes de solidificação completa (this precipitation of crystals has been clearly demonstrated by tests in which castings are turned upside down before solidification is complete), em desordem (helter-skelter, hugger-mugger, pell-mell, uproarious, upside down), de pernas para o ar (head over heels, topsy-turvy, upside down), de cabeça para baixo (topsy-turvy, upside down). (various references)

Romanian

partea superioarã (the upper part), partea de sus. (various references)

Russian 

верхняя сторона или часть, верхняя сторона. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

terraza (terrace, terrazzo), riesgo al alza (upside risk), potencial alcista (upside potential), los sistemas acusticos de localizacion con base larga son identicos a los sistemas con base corta invertidos;por ejemplo,un emisor sencillo puede suspenderse debajo del barco y este colocarse e n el centro de un sistema de hidrofonos anclados de una milla (a single beacon may be suspended underneath the ship and the ship centered within a one-mile-square pattern of anchored hydrophones, long base line acoustic systems are similar to short base line systems turned inside out or upside down;for example), esta lluvia de cristales ha sido bien demostrada por medio de experimentos de coladas invertidas antes de completarse la solidificación (this precipitation of crystals has been clearly demonstrated by tests in which castings are turned upside down before solidification is complete), de otro modo (else, upside down), al revés (backward, backwards, on the contrary, reverse, reversed, the other way around, upside down, upside-down, vice-versa, wrong). (various references)

Swedish

upsiderisk (upside risk), uppsida (upside risk), uppochnedvänd (inverted, reversed, topsy turvy, upside down, upturned), upp och ner (topsy turvy, up-and-down, upside down), upp och ned (upside down), vinstmöjlighet (upside risk), möjlighet till kursstegring (upside potential), huller om buller (helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, pell mell, pell-mell, topsy turvy, upside down), haussepotential (upside potential), felvänd (back to front, upside down). (various references)

Turkish

üst taraf (face). (various references)

Ukrainian

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

Vietnamese 

phần trên, mặt trên. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "upside": upsides. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Upside" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hupsith, ipsden, opcode, pusie, Ruspidge, Ushida. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dupes, pseud, siped, spied, spued.

-2 letters: dies, dips, dues, dupe, dups, ides, peds, pied, pies, puds, side, sipe, sped, spud, spue, sued, supe, used.

-3 letters: die, dip, dis, due, dui, dup, eds, ids, ped, pes, pie, pis, piu, psi, pud, pus, sei, sip, sue, sup, ups, use.

-4 letters: de, ed, es, id, is, pe.

+1 letter: dispute, updives, updries, upsides.

+2 letters: clupeids, cuspides, deputies, diapause, displume, disputed, disputer, disputes, dumpiest, duperies, euploids, impulsed, pudgiest, punished, stipuled, stupider, sulphide, supplied, suspired, unpoised, upraised.

+3 letters: aptitudes, autopsied, clupeoids, cuspidate, dauphines, deputizes, diapaused, diapauses, dipterous, displumed, displumes, disposure, disputers, disrepute, disrupted, disrupter, dumpiness, duopolies, eupatrids, guidepost, insculped, judgeship, multipeds, pedicures, plumipeds, preaudits, presidium, priedieus, pruderies, published, puddliest, pudencies, pudginess, pulicides, shunpiked, stupefied, stupidest, subperiod, sulphides, supermind, superwide, supinated, surprised, surprized, underlips, underpins, underspin, unshipped, unspoiled, upsending, upshifted, upstirred.