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Definition: Upturned |
UpturnedAdjective1. Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket". 2. (used of noses) turned up at the end; "a retrousse nose"; "a small upturned nose". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "upturned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: UpturnedSynonyms: overturned (adj), retrousse (adj), tip-tilted (adj), upset (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Front | Phrase: formosa muta commendatio est; frons est animi janua; "Human face divine"; imago animi vultus est indices oculi; "sea of upturned faces". |
Wonder | With wonder; Noun: with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Upturned |
| English words defined with "upturned": Calyptridium umbellatum, cupflower ♦ English toy spaniel ♦ godwit ♦ hognose snake ♦ nierembergia ♦ overturned ♦ puff adder, pussy-paw, pussy-paws, pussy's-paw ♦ retrousse ♦ sand viper, Spraguea umbellatum ♦ tip-tilted ♦ upset. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "upturned": contact erosion valley ♦ PICTURE FRAMER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Upturned Glass (1947) | |
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 | Rescue teams at work on the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), seeking crew members trapped inside, 7 December 1941. The starboard bilge keel is visible at the top of the upturned hull. Officers' Motor Boats from Oklahoma and USS Argonne (AG-31) are in the foreground. USS Maryland (BB-46) is in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Scene in Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, circa late March or early April 1889, during salvage efforts. View looks westerly, with USS Nipsic undergoing repairs in the center. The upturned hull of German gunboat Adler is in shallow water beyond Nipsic. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Head of a man in hat with upturned brim. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Radio class of U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps, at Camp Nine Mile, Fort Missoula District, Montana, hears Instructor Best explain a construction point, which he points out on the upturned set. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Upturned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.51% of the time. "Upturned" is used about 162 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.51% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.64% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.23% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.62% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "upturned": upturned apron ♦ upturned nose ♦ with upturned eyes. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blouse collar upturned | 2 |
collar drawing upturned | 2 |
nipples upturned | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "upturned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 向上 (upturn, upward, upwards). (various references) | |
Danish | opadvendt beskyttelsesplade (upturned apron), genoprejste lag (upturned strata). (various references) | |
Dutch | opgerichte lagen (upturned strata), opgebogen beschermmat (upturned apron). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylöspäin kääntyneet kerrokset (upturned strata). (various references) | |
French | radier contre-pente (upturned apron), couches redressées (upturned strata). (various references) | |
German | nach oben gewandt. (various references) | |
Greek | ανασηκωμένος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | feltűrt, felhajtott, felfelé fordított (turned up, upcast). (various references) | |
Indonesian | conet. (various references) | |
Italian | strati raddrizzati (upturned strata), platea in contropendenza (upturned apron). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飛簷 (high roof, upturned eaves), 上目使い (upturned eyes), 上目 (upturned eyes, upward glance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひえ" (high roof, swallow in flight, upturned eaves), うわめづかい (upturned eyes), うわめ (upturned eyes, upward glance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urneduptay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | radier em contradeclividade (upturned apron). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prevrnut (upset). (various references) | |
Spanish | estratos gradados (upturned strata). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppochnedvänd (inverted, reversed, topsy turvy, upside down), uppåtvänd. (various references) | |
Turkish | ters dönmüş, kalkık (erect, raised, stand up, tip-tilted, turnup, upright), alabora olmuş. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Upturned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pultruded. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-p-r-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: prudent, uptrend. | |
-2 letters: pruned, punted, punter, tuneup, turned, turnup, unpure, untrue, upturn. | |
-3 letters: drupe, duper, erupt, nuder, perdu, prude, prune, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, under, undue, upend. | |
-4 letters: dent, duet, dune, dunt, dupe, dure, durn, nerd, nude, nurd, pend, pent, pert, punt, pure, rend, rent, rude, rued, rune, runt, tend, tern, true, tune, turd. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-p-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: punctured. | |
+3 letters: unperturbed, unsupported. | |
+4 letters: jurisprudent, superconduct, unexpurgated, unproductive. | |
+5 letters: jurisprudents, superabundant, superannuated, superconducts, uninterrupted, unpasteurized. | |
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