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upright in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    erect  vertical  upright 
  2. of moral excellence
    "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"
    good  just  upright 
  3. in a vertical position; not sloping
    "an upright post"
    upright  unsloped 
noun
  1. a piano with a vertical sounding board
    upright  upright piano 
  2. a vertical structural member as a post or stake
    "the ball sailed between the uprights"
    upright  vertical 
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