Associations to the word «Upright»

Wiktionary

UPRIGHT, adjective. Vertical; erect.
UPRIGHT, adjective. Greater in height than breadth.
UPRIGHT, adjective. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
UPRIGHT, adjective. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
UPRIGHT, adverb. In or into an upright position
UPRIGHT, noun. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
UPRIGHT, noun. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
UPRIGHT, noun. (informal) An upright piano.
UPRIGHT, verb. (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
UPRIGHT BASS, noun. (musical instrument) A double bass. (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family)
UPRIGHT BASSES, noun. Plural of upright bass
UPRIGHT BASSIST, noun. A double bassist; someone who plays the upright bass (double bass).
UPRIGHT BASSISTS, noun. Plural of upright bassist
UPRIGHT PIANO, noun. A piano (pianoforte) whose strings are vertical.
UPRIGHT PIANOS, noun. Plural of upright piano
UPRIGHT YELLOW-SORREL, noun. A low spreading plant with yellow flowers and clover-like leaves, Oxalis stricta.

Dictionary definition

UPRIGHT, noun. A vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights".
UPRIGHT, noun. A piano with a vertical sounding board.
UPRIGHT, adjective. In a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post".
UPRIGHT, adjective. Of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man".
UPRIGHT, adjective. Upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright".

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras