Definition of Upright

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Upright

Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.

In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

Conformable to moral rectitude.

Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

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Upright Quotations

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
Lily Tomlin

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Dylan Thomas

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri

Upright Translations

upright in French is droite
upright in German is senkrecht
upright in Italian is pari, verticale
upright in Latin is ingenuus, pius, rectus, erectus
upright in Spanish is perpendicular

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