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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
upright
1. a vertical structural member as a post or stake
- the ball sailed between the uprights
• Syn:
vertical
• Derivationally related forms:
vertical (for: vertical)
• Hypernyms:
structural member
• Hyponyms:
column, pillar, jamb, post, scantling,
stud, shaft, scape, stile
• Part Holonyms:
goalpost
2. a piano with a vertical sounding board
• Syn:
upright piano
• Hypernyms:
piano, pianoforte, forte-piano
• Hyponyms:
spinet
1. in a vertical position;
not sloping (Freq. 5)
- an upright post
• Syn:
unsloped
• Similar to:
vertical, perpendicular
• Derivationally related forms:
uprightness
2. of moral excellence (Freq. 1)
- a genuinely good person
- a just cause
- an upright and respectable man
• Syn:
good, just
• Similar to:
righteous
• Derivationally related forms:
uprightness, justness (for: just), goodness (for: good)
3. 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
• Syn:
erect, vertical
• Ant:
unerect (for: erect)
• Similar to:
erectile, fastigiate, orthostatic, passant, rampant,
rearing, semi-climbing, semi-erect, semi-upright, standing, stand-up,
statant, straight, unbent, unbowed
• Derivationally related forms:
uprightness, vertical (for: vertical), verticalness (for: vertical), erectness (for: erect)
• Attrubites:
position, posture, attitude
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