upright
/ˈʌpɹaɪt/ noun C2- Any vertical part of a structure, especially a part that provides support.
- A goal post.
- The poles of a field goal post.
- A leg.
- A tentpole that holds aloft the center or sides of a tent. · Coordinate term: ridge
- The state of being vertical or perpendicular. · Can you fix that? It's out of upright.
- Characterized by being awake and out of bed.
- A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
Plural uprights
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“It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).
If a home is happy it cannot fit too close—let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
Mowgli stood upright--the fire pot in his hands.
The walls were as white, the pincushion as hard, the chairs as stiffly and yellowly upright as ever.
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