upright

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vertical structural member as a post or stake

   the ball sailed between the uprights

2. 2
   adj

   Vertical; erect.

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   In its proper orientation; not overturned.

   My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again.

4. 4
   adj

   Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

   There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

5. 5
   adv

   In or into an upright position.

   I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.

6. 6
   noun

   Any vertical part of a structure.

   On the change in architectural forms from the pyramidal to the obeliscar, the fires were transferred from the altars, or cubes, to the summits of the typical uprights, or towers; […]

7. 7
   noun

   Short for upright arcade game cabinet

   The video arcade machines are typically in stand up arcade cabinets, although some have been built as tables. The uprights have a monitor and controls in front and players insert coins or tokens into the machines to play the game.

8. 8
   adj

   in a vertical position

Etymology

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”).