upper

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈʌpə/    /ˈʌpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
    — Eye Girl is very moody. She is always zooted up on some really foul combination of uppers and downers and Rollerblading. Her bouts of Rollerblading seem to coincide with fights with Eye Guy.
  2. A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.; Anything that cheers one up.
    — 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Patrick was a cabbie & a dispatcher at Yellow Cab & when we got to the church where the [funeral] services were being held, the cabbies came out in force for Pat & there were at least 30 cabs pulling into the church parking lot. It was a real upper for a lot of us.
  3. The upper portion of something.
    — The slewing ring is basically a large bearing upon which the upper is mounted. The outer race of the slewing ring is bolted to the upper, and the inner race is bolted to the car-body.
  4. The upper portion of something.; The piece of material that forms the top part of a shoe or boot above the sole.
    — Holonyms: shoe, boot
  5. The upper portion of something.; The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
  6. Someone with higher social standing
    — Thus a vicious circle is established: the uppers offer participation, and the lowers, feeling persecuted, withdraw.
  7. Someone with higher social standing; A senior student.
    — Each Upper had his private Fag; but general fagdom consisted of obedience to the demand of every Upper, no matter in whose House he happened to be.
  8. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
    — Next, take up slack equally on the two uppers until they are snug.
  9. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.; A tooth in the upper jaw.
    — In the lingualized type of occlusion, contact of the lingual cusps of the uppers against the semianatomic teeth on the lowers will be seen in lateral, protrusive, and eccentric movements.
  10. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.; A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
    — Treatment was continued until November, 1909, when a retainer was placed in position in the lower, consisting of bands round the lower first molars and a wire passing lingually round all the teeth. The upper was retained by means of a plate with wires wires passing behind the upper first molars and round in front of all the teeth.
  11. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.; An upper berth or bunk.
    — The Railroad Company further averred that it operated sleeping cars over its system of more than 7,000 miles of interstate roads, and that the Interstate Commerce Commission had prescribed rates for each of said sleeping car units on trains running to and from the state of Wisconsin. The rate fixed for the upper was 80 per cent. of the charge for the use of the lower; the price for the whole section beting the sum of the two rates.
  12. A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
    — The 'upper' is one of nine apertures through which consciousness can leave the body at death (utkrantih).
形容词 adj.
  1. At a higher physical position, level, rank or order.
  2. Situated on higher ground, further inland, more upstream, or more northerly.
  3. Younger, more recent.
  4. Of or pertaining to a secondary school.

词形变化

uppermore comparative,rare uppermost superlative uppers plural

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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Germanic *ub
Proto-Germanic *upp
Proto-West Germanic *upp
Old English upp
Middle English up
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Germanic *-izô
Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō
Proto-Germanic *-ōzô
Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō
Old English -ra
Middle English -er
Middle English upper
English upper
Inherited from Middle English upper. By surface analysis, up + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Germanic *ub
Proto-Germanic *upp
Proto-West Germanic *upp
Old English upp
Middle English up
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Germanic *-izô
Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō
Proto-Germanic *-ōzô
Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō
Old English -ra
Middle English -er
Middle English upper
English upper
Inherited from Middle English upper. By surface analysis, up + -er.
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