upright

Anlam (İngilizce)

Adj

1. Vertical; erect
2. In its proper orientation; not overturned.
3. Greater in height than breadth.
4. Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
5. Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Adv

In or into an upright position.

Noun

1. Any vertical part of a structure.
2. (slang) Any vertical part of a structure.
3. Any vertical part of a structure.
4. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
5. (informal) An upright piano.
6. (informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.
7. Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
8. (obsolete) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.

Verb

To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/ˈʌpɹaɪt/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- + right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic uppréttur (“upright”).