(a.) In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
(a.) Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.
(a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.
(a.) Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
(n.) Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.
Example Sentences:
(1) A significant effect for pirenzepine was seen for episodes greater than 5 min (t = 2.61, P = 0.023) and a trend towards significance was seen for total (upright and supine positions combined) percent time of reflux (t = 2.13, P = 0.055).
(2) Nine patients were admitted to the hospital, placed on a diet containing 150 mEq sodium, and studied for periods of 4 hours, on different days, in the following conditions: (1) supine position, (2) upright posture (UP), (3) UP after 10 mg domperidone, intravenously in bolus, and (4) UP after 3 days of domperidone, 30 mg orally.
(3) Mean arterial pressure rose in upright posture in many cases, but its changes (percentage) showed no correlation with the changes (percentage) in GFR.
(4) The veteran almost had one with the best effort of the first half, a typical drive from the edge of the Stoke penalty area that shaved Thomas Sorensen's left-hand upright, though that possibly said more about the quality of the attacking play in the first half than the dynamism of Scholes's attempt.
(5) Possible mesial root extrusion was found in 60.0% of the uprighted molars.
(6) There was a marked increase in forskolin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in the upright posture in both elderly and young subjects.
(7) In 7 multiple pregnancies the changes in maternal and fetal cardiac-circulation parameters resulting from a passive change in presentation from left lateral to steady upright were measured for the duration of pregnancy and the puerperium and compared with corresponding data from a single-fetus collective.
(8) Prediction of change by deviation of the lateral asymmetry index on ISIS examination were compared with measured change on standard upright roentgenograms.
(9) The upright-tilting test was considered positive if syncope developed in association with hypotension or bradycardia, or both.
(10) Aggressive behavior was evoked by introducing a group-housed male mouse (intruder) into the home cage of the isolated or nonisolated mouse (resident).d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, methylphenidate, cocaine, and L-dopa decreased attack and threat behavior by resident mice, the isolates requiring 2--4 times higher drug doses for the antiaggressive effects than the nonisolates, d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate caused intruder mice to be more frequently attacked by their non-treated resident opponents, to escape more often, to assume the defensive upright posture less, and to move about more often.
(11) The numerals were either upright, or inverted, or rotated perpendicular to the arm axis.
(12) An upright chest radiograph revealed a left hydropneumothorax.
(13) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
(14) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
(15) Estimation of the microcapillary flow was made both after supine resting and on standing upright.
(16) By changing the monkey's body position (upright, ear-down, supine), postrotatory nystagmus was elicited in the horizontal, vertical, or torsional direction.
(17) The gigantic lintels that bridge the uprights were also elaborately worked to even their size and height.
(18) The role of the vestibulo-spinal system involved in the maintenance of upright standing posture was studied by a time series analysis with a 5-dimensional feedback model.
(19) Overnight supine and 4-h upright PRA, plasma aldosterone, and 24-h urinary tetrahydroaldosterone (THA) and aldosterone secretion rates (ASR) were measured.
(20) The exercise test protocol consisted of pseudorandom binary sequences (PRBS) of workload (W) performed on a bicycle ergometer in the upright position (20 W - 80 W, 15 bits, 30 s per bit; the sequence was repeated three times).
Uptight
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He was not in the mood for elaboration, with abundant short answers and uptight reactions to the topics that were suggested for discourse.
(2) I would be flabbergasted that if anyone bothered to test the loos of some of our most uptight rightwing papers they didn't find some traces of Class A drugs.
(3) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
(4) Even then, I kept thinking, 'Do I have to be so uptight for so long?'
(5) Immediately before and at intervals up to four hours after drug ingestion, patients rated pain severity, pain relief, the tense and uptight feeling, and muscle stiffness.
(6) City's Mancini, following a series of nervy, half-hearted predecessors less suited to the strange, monumental and messy task of creating a football team in opposition to the extortionate Reds, and remaking history – which Ferguson understood with his own particular combative cunning – has this purpose too, this instinctive perception of how to succeed by channelling uptight regional mentality as well as introducing fresh, resourceful outside skills.
(7) Until Keith came along, people were very uptight about eating out, and he helped us to chill out about it."
(8) Based on the 007-style adventures of the eponymous heroine, the new flick will unfold in a similar vein to The Heat, which sees McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop pair up with an uptight FBI agent (Sandra Bullock).
(9) 'When it comes to their bodies, women are uptight.'
(10) They have low self-esteem and confidence just because our culture teaches us to be so confined and uptight.
(11) Yes, he's bad, but he's charming to people 95% of the time, and his colleagues [in the scam] are so fun, and funny, and yet I have to be this uptight slappy-face.
(12) Due Date – from The Hangover's director, Todd Phillips – has line-for-line one of the sharpest scripts of the bunch but is almost scuppered by the sour note that crops up continually, stirred up by Robert Downey Jr 's uncharacteristically uptight performance as a dad-to-be.
(13) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(14) Everydaysexism.com has become enormously popular because women get so used to street harassment and sexism that it's become normalised and you're seen as uptight if you draw attention to it.
(15) Everyone works that effortless just-got-out-of-bed look, but they are uptight about their coffee.
(16) The woman who would have been Diana's daughter-in-law is undoubtedly experiencing many of the pressures Diana was facing, but is probably better equipped to deal with them, with a more relaxed and media-savvy sense, and what appears to be a less frantically uptight and solemn attitude than that surrounding Charles and Diana in private.
(17) "I'm sure the reason she did it was because people thought she was kind of uptight," says Batali, who has known her for 10 years.
(18) Lead actor Tatiana Maslany plays eight (and counting) cloned versions of herself, flitting seamlessly between characters including a cop, a Ukrainian sociopath, and an uptight soccer mom with a drink problem.
(19) Chamcha, the inauthentic, uptight and elitist migrant to London, constantly mocked for these qualities while in Bombay, is allowed to redeem himself, while the indigenously rooted and social-climbing villain cannot escape the deserts of his villainy.
(20) Talented and beautiful, sure, but also perceived as uptight, erudite, perhaps even royal in their dispositions.