upright

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upright Definition

(a) maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many buildings were still standing"
(a) 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"
(n) a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"
(n) a piano with a vertical sounding board
(s) in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"
(s) of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass
(s) erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"

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