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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats