Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: [ʌp.ɹaɪt]
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈʌpraɪt/
Översättning
Adjektiv
1.dik

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Vertical; erect.
  2. Greater in height than breadth.
  3. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

Adverb

  1. in or into an upright position

Substantiv

  1. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
  2. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
  3. (informal) An upright piano.

Exempel

  • I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.
  • Fab[ell]: What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ſtrikes my hart! // My ſtiffned haire ſtands vpright on my head, // As doe the briſtles of a porcupine.
  • Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright.
  • Upright posture evolved well before an enlarged brain in hominids.
  • Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright.
  • we need to put the lamp upright.
  • an upright gentleman.

Böjningsformer

Pluraluprights
Komparativmore upright
Superlativmost upright

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