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What (who) is upright - definition
DIRECTION THAT IS DEPENDENT ON THE ORIENTATION OF AN OBSERVER (UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT, FORWARDS OR BACKWARDS)
Your other left; Laevo; Left/right confusion; Left-right confusion; RIght/left confusion; Right-left confusion; Left right confusion; Right left confusion; Upright; Left (direction); Right side; Groundward; Direction (geometry, geography); Right (direction); Egocentric direction; Egocentric coordinates; Erect (position); Egocentric coordinate; Left side; Relative directions; Personal relative direction
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upright
a.
1.
Erect, perpendicular, vertical, on end.
2.
Honest, just, honorable, conscientious, virtuous, good, pure, straightforward, faithful, true, trustworthy.
3.
Virtuous, just, honorable.
upright
¦ adjective
1. vertical; erect.
(of a piano) having vertical strings.
2. greater in height than breadth.
3. strictly honourable or honest.
¦ adverb in or into an upright position.
¦ noun
1. a vertical post, structure, or line.
2. an upright piano.
Derivatives
uprightly adverb
uprightness noun
Origin
upright
(uprights)
1.
If you are sitting or standing upright, you are sitting or standing with your back straight, rather than bending or lying down.
Helen sat upright in her chair...
Jerrold pulled himself upright on the bed...
He moved into an upright position.
ADJ: usu ADJ after v, v-link ADJ, also ADJ n
2.
An upright vacuum cleaner or freezer is tall rather than wide.
...the latest state-of-the-art upright vacuum cleaners.
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
An upright chair has a straight back and no arms.
He was sitting on an upright chair beside his bed, reading.
ADJ
4.
You can refer to vertical posts or the vertical parts of an object as uprights.
...the uprights of a four-poster bed.
N-COUNT
5.
You can describe people as upright when they are careful to follow acceptable rules of behaviour and behave in a moral way.
...a very upright, trustworthy man.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Wikipedia
Body relative direction
Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's. The most common ones are: left and right; forward(s) and backward(s); up and down. They form three pairs of orthogonal axes.
Examples of use of upright
1. The train‘s three double–decker passenger cars remained upright.
2. Some slept upright and others looked dazed and drained.
3. Cranes were brought in to begin setting the cars upright.
4. Work crews had planned to slowly sink it upright.
5. Older eggs will stand upright on the bottom or float.