Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 29
Upheld () imp. & p. p. of
Uphold.
Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split.
Uphill (adv.) Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
Uphill (a.) Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.
Uphill (a.) Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
Uphilt (v. t.) To thrust in up to the hilt; as, to uphilt one's sword into an enemy.
Uphoard (v. t.) To hoard up.
Uphold (v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Uphold (v. t.) To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
Uphold (v. t.) To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
Upholder (n.) A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.
Upholder (n.) An undertaker, or provider for funerals.
Upholder (n.) An upholsterer.
Upholder (n.) One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
Upholster (v. t.) To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
Upholster (n.) A broker.
Upholster (n.) An upholsterer.
Upholsterer (n.) One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters.
Upholstery (n.) The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.
Uphroe (n.) Same as Euphroe.
Upland (n.) The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.
Upland (a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
Upland (a.) Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
Uplander (n.) One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.
Uplander (n.) The upland sandpiper.
Uplandish (a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
Uplandish (a.) Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized.
Uplay (v. t.) To hoard.
Uplead (v. t.) To lead upward.
Uplean (v. i.) To lean or incline upon anything.
Uplifting (imp. & p. p.) of Uplift
Uplift (v. t.) To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.
Uplift (n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.
Up-line (n.) A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train.
Uplock (v. t.) To lock up.
Uplook (v. i.) To look or gaze up.
Upmost (a.) Highest; topmost; uppermost.
Upokororo (n.) An edible fresh-water New Zealand fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus) of the family Haplochitonidae. In general appearance and habits, it resembles the northern lake whitefishes and trout. Called also grayling.
Upon (prep.) On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
Uppent (a.) A Pent up; confined.
Upper (a.; comp. of Up.) [Z] [B]（地點，位置等）較高的；上面的；上首的；上游的；內地的；北部的；（地位，等級）較高的；上層的；上流的 Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.
The upper hand, The superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. -- Jowett (Thucyd.).
Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), The name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth.
Upper case, The top one of a pair of compositor's cases.
See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
Upper covert (Zool.), One of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills.
Upper deck (Naut.), The topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck.
Upper leather, The leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes.
Upper strake (Naut.), The strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.
Upper ten thousand, or (Abbreviated) Upper ten, The ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.]
Upper topsail (Naut.), The upper half of a double topsail.
Upper works (Naut.), All those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water.
Upper world. The atmosphere.
Upper world. Heaven.
Upper world. This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.
Upper (n.) [C] 鞋幫；【口】上舖；上齒 The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Upper (a.) The topmost one of two.
Upper (a.) Higher in place or position; "the upper bunk"; "in the upper center of the picture"; "the upper stories".
Upper (a.) Superior in rank or accomplishment; "the upper half of the class"
Upper (n.) The higher of two berths [syn: upper berth, upper].
Upper (n.) Piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot; "Uppers come in many styles".
Upper (n.) A central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression [syn: amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed].
Uppermost (a.) 至上的；最高的；最主要的 Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. -- Swift.
Uppermost (adv.) 至上地；最高；最初 In or into the most prominent position, as in the mind; "say what comes uppermost".
Uppermost (adv.) In or into the highest position; "the blade turned uppermost"
Uppermost (a.) At or nearest to the top; "the uppermost book in the pile"; "on the topmost step" [syn: topmost, uppermost, upmost].
Uppertendom (n.) The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
Uppile (v. t.) To pile, or heap, up.
Uppish (a.) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.
Upplight () imp. & p. p. of Uppluck.
Uppluck (v. t.) To pull or pluck up.
Uppricked (a.) Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal.
Upprop (v. t.) To prop up.
Upraise (v. t.) To raise; to lift up.
Uprear (v. t.) To raise; to erect.
Upridged (a.) Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged.
Upright (a.) In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
Upright (a.) Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.
Upright (a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.
Upright (a.) Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
Upright (n.) Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.
Uprighteously (adv.) In an upright or just manner.
Uprightly (adv.) In an upright manner.
Uprightness (n.) the quality or state of being upright.
Uprightness (n.) [ U ] (Approving) The quality of being honest, responsible, and moral.
Uprise (v. i.) 起床；上升；登高；增大；增高 To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." -- Cowley.
Uprose the virgin with the morning light. -- Pope.
Uprise (v. i.) To have an upward direction or inclination.
Uprose the mystic mountain range. -- Tennyson.
Uprise (n.) The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.]
Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? -- Shak.
Uprise (v.) Come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow].
Uprise (v.) Ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church".
Uprise (v.) Rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" [syn: bristle, uprise, stand up].
Uprise (v.) Rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up] [ant: lie, lie down, sit, sit down].
Uprise (v.) Come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, uprise, ascend] [ant: go down, go under, set].
Uprise (v.) Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down].
Uprise (v.) Return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise, uprise].
Uprise (v.) Get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in].
Uprising (n.) Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
Uprising (n.) An insurrection; a popular revolt.
Uprist (n.) Uprising.
Uprist () imp. of Uprise. Uprose.
Uproar (n.) [U] [S1] 騷亂；騷動；吵鬧；喧囂 Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. -- Acts xvii. 5.
Uproar (v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion. [Obs.] "Uproar the universal peace." -- Shak.
Uproar (v. i.) To make an uproar. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Uproar (n.) A state of commotion and noise and confusion [syn: {tumult}, {tumultuousness}, {uproar}, {garboil}].
Uproar (n.) Loud confused noise from many sources [syn: {hubbub}, {uproar}, {brouhaha}, {katzenjammer}].
Uproarious (a.) 喧囂的；騷動的；令人捧腹大笑的 Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- {Up*roar"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Up*roar"i*ous*ness}, n.
Uproarious (a.) Uncontrollably noisy [syn: {rackety}, {rip-roaring}, {uproarious}].
Uproarious (a.) Marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: {hilarious}, {screaming(a)}, {uproarious}].
Uproll (v. t.) To roll up. -- Milton.
Uproot (v. t.) (v. t.) [H] 連根拔；根除；滅絕；趕走；把……趕出家園；(v. i.) 遷離；改變生活方式 To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Trees uprooted left their place. -- Dryden.
At his command the uprooted hills retired. -- Milton.
Uproot (v.) Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: {uproot}, {deracinate}].
Uproot (v.) Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: {uproot}, {eradicate}, {extirpate}, {root out}, {exterminate}].
Uproot (v.) Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: {uproot}, {extirpate}, {deracinate}, {root out}].
Uprouse (v. t.) To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse.
Uprun (v. i.) To run up; to ascend.
Uprush (v. i.) To rush upward.
Uprush (n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.
Upsarokas (n. pl.) See Crows.
Upseek (v. i.) To seek or strain upward.
Upsend (v. t.) To send, cast, or throw up.
Upset (v. i.) 翻倒；傾覆 To become upset.
Upset (a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan. -- Sir W. Scott.
Upset price (n.) [C] (Property US Scottish) 拍賣時之底價 The lowest price at which a property may be sold, set by a court especially after a foreclosure (= a situation in which a bank takes a property because the owner cannot make payments on the loan):
Normally, lenders put up houses for auction with bids starting at the upset price in order to recoup their costs.
Compare: Foreclosure
Foreclosure (n.) [Mass noun] 終止回贖權；１.原指終止抵押物回贖權之訴。抵押人未在規定期限內清償抵押債務時，抵押權人有權起訴請求終止抵押人對抵押物的回贖權，由抵押權人取得抵押物的所有權或變賣抵押物以清償債務；２.現在一般指依法執行留置權、信託合同或抵押權。The action of taking possession of a mortgaged property when the mortgagor fails to keep up their mortgage payments.
‘Assistance for mortgage borrowers facing foreclosure.’
[Count noun ]‘Major increases in home foreclosures.’
Upset (n.) 翻倒，顛覆； 心煩意亂； 混亂 The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
Upset (v. t.) 弄翻，打翻；傾覆；打亂，攪亂；意外地擊敗 To set up; to put upright. [Obs.] "With sail on mast upset." -- R. of Brunne.
Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
Upset (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
Upset (v. t.) To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation." -- Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Upset (v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. [Colloq.]
Upset (v. t.) (Basketwork) To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.
Upset (a.) 難過的； 失望的； 沮喪的； （腸胃）不舒服的 Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children" [syn: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried].
Upset (a.) Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset].
Upset (a.) Used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers".
Upset (a.) Mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach".
Upset (a.) Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket" [syn: overturned, upset, upturned].
Upset (n.) An unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me" [syn: disturbance, perturbation, upset].
Upset (n.) The act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living" [syn: upset, derangement, overthrow].
Upset (n.) A physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" [syn: disorder, upset].
Upset (n.) A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging [syn: upset, swage].
Upset (n.) The act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed" [syn: upset, overturn, turnover].
Upset (n.) An improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath" [syn: overturn, upset].
Upset (v.) Disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries".
Upset (v.) Cause to lose one's composure [syn: upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit].
Upset (v.) Move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought" [syn: disturb, upset, trouble].
Upset (v.) Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer" [syn: overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump over].
Upset (v.) Form metals with a swage [syn: swage, upset].
Upset (v.) Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team".
Upsetting (a.) Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow.
Upshoot (v. i.) To shoot upward.
Upshot (n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
Upside (n.) The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
Upsidown (adv.) See Upsodown.
Upsitting (n.) A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.
Upskip (n.) An upstart.
Upsnatch (v. t.) To snatch up.
Upsoar (v. i.) To soar or mount up.
Upsodown (adv.) Upside down.