Upside-down

Definition: Upside-down

Upside-down

Adjective

1. Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake".

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

Date "upside-down" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonym: Upside-down

Crosswords: Upside-down

So you get up, turn the whole damn place upside-down, 'cause you gotta make sure that your little world is still safe and sound, still just the way you left it (Freaky Links; writing credit: Mark Verheiden; Juan Carlos Coto)

You glued it on upside-down! (The Goonies; writing credit: Steven Spielberg; Chris Columbus)

If your feet smell and your nose runs, you've been made upside-down. (references; author: unknown)

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

Books

• How to grapple with the pineapple : from planting pineapple tops to baking upside-down cakes (reference)

• The Upside-Down Kids: Helping Dyslexic Children Understand Themselves and Their Disorder (reference)

• The Upside-Down Frown and Splashes of Joy: A Book About Joy (Geranium Lady Series) (reference)

• The Upside-Down Day (Cul-De-Sac Kids, 23) (reference)

• The Salinas, upside-down river (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Fred Walton proving that it's optional whether to walk upside-down or right-side up at the South Pole. Just kidding!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopeia xamachana) is a common resident of soft estuarine waters. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Pussy Willows, or Willow Catkins, (Salix sp.) near Upper Pleasant Creek. Note: this image was scanned upside-down. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

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

Chinese 

上部 (upper, upside). (various references)

Czech

naruby (inside out, upside down). (various references)

Danish

thoraxmave (upside-down stomach), omvendt tag (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof). (various references)

Dutch

omkeerdak (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof), omgekeerd dak (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof). (various references)

French

toiture inversée (upside-down asphalt roof). (various references)

German

Umkehrdach (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof), Thoraxmagen (upside-down stomach), Dach mit darüberliegendem Isoliermaterial (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof). (various references)

Italian

tetto rovescio (inverted roof, upside-down asphalt roof). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'さ (inverted, reversed), 俯せ (lying on one's face). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さかさ (inversion, inverted, reverse, reversed, upside down), うつぶせ (lying on one's face). (various references)

Pig Latin

ide-downupsay.(various references)

Portuguese

transtornado (unsettled), invertido (converse, invert, inverted, reverse, reversed, upside down). (various references)

Romanian

întorc totul cu susul în jos (they turn everything upside-down). (various references)

Russian 

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

Spanish

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

Turkmen 

dьnderilmek (flip-flop, turn upside-down), agdar-duсder etmek (turn upside-down). (various references)

Synodontis, Synodontis spp.. (various references)

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.