Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Higher in place, position, or rank.
- adjective Situated on higher ground.
- adjective Lying farther inland.
- adjective Northern.
- adjective Geology & Archaeology Of, relating to, or being a later division of the period named.
- adjective Denoting the smaller and usually less broadly representative house of a bicameral legislature.
- noun The part of a shoe or boot above the sole.
- noun Informal An upper berth.
- noun Informal The upper teeth or a set of upper dentures.
- noun A drug, especially an amphetamine, used as a stimulant.
- noun An exhilarating or euphoric experience.
- idiom (on (one's) uppers) Impoverished; destitute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Higher.
- Higher in place: opposed to nether: as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; an upper story; the upper deck.
- Superior in rank or dignity: as, the upper house of a legislature; an upper servant.
- Vamps and quarters of boots and shoes collectively. Also called simply uppers.
- noun The upper part of a shoe or boot, comprising the vamp and quarters.
- noun plural Separate cloth gaiters to button above the shoes over the ankle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
- Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior.
- the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under
Hand . - (Eng. Hist.) the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth.
- the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st
Case , n., 3. - (Zoöl.) one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills.
- (Naut.) the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck.
- the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes.
- (Naut.) the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.
- [Colloq.] the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy.
- (Naut.) the upper half of a double topsail.
- (Naut.) all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water.
- This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the
underworld .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which is higher, contrasted with the
lower . - noun shoemaking The piece of
leather , etc., that forms the top part of ashoe above thesole . - noun A
stimulant such asamphetamine that increasesenergy and decreasesappetite . - adjective At a
higher level ,rank orposition . - adjective Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
- adjective archaeology, geology Of a later
division of someperiod . - adjective education Of or pertaining to a
secondary school .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective higher in place or position
- noun the higher of two berths
- noun a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
- noun piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot
- adjective the topmost one of two
- adjective superior in rank or accomplishment
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Examples
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The first four tones of any diatonic scale (major or minor) are often referred to as the _lower tetrachord_ [14] and the upper four tones as the _upper tetrachord_.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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SIR THOMAS MORE, the famous Chancellor, who preserved his humor and wit to the last moment, when he came to be executed on Tower-hill, the headsman demanded his upper garment as his fee; "Ah! friend," said he, taking off his cap, "that, I think, is my _upper_ garment."
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Mark Lemon 1839
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"I may say that nearly invariably the order is -- 1st, the lower front incissors [cutting teeth], then the upper front, then the _upper_ two lateral incissors, and that not uncommonly
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844
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I'm going to assume by the term upper thighs, you're referring to entire upper leg area (all the way around the leg).
That's Fit Joe Dowdell 2010
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I'm going to assume by the term upper thighs, you're referring to entire upper leg area (all the way around the leg).
That's Fit 2010
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The term upper layer is sometimes used to refer to any layer above another layer in the OSI model.
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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, in speaking with several political analysts who look at these voters in the south, they really see, kind of a divide, between what they call the upper south and the lower south.
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In other words, if the word would get around — there were two separate departments in the weave room, what they called the upper and the lower end.
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In other words, if the word would get around -- there were two separate departments in the weave room, what they called the upper and the lower end.
Oral History Interview with James Pharis, 1977 July 24. Interview H-38. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By James Pharis James Pharis 1977
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Two great doors are opened, and Madame leads the way into what she calls her upper and private parlor, a hall of some fifty feet by thirty, in the centre of which a sumptuously decorated table is set out.
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