Upper
['ʌpə] or ['ʌpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(adj.) higher in place or position; 'the upper bunk'; 'in the upper center of the picture'; 'the upper stories' .
(adj.) superior in rank or accomplishment; 'the upper half of the class' .
(adj.) the topmost one of two .
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Definition
(comp.) 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.
(n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
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Definition
adj. (comp. of up) farther up: higher in position dignity &c.: superior:—superl. Up′permost Up′most.—ns. Up′per the part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt; Up′perhand superiority: advantage.—adj. Up′permost highest in place rank &c.: first to come into the mind.—adv. in the highest place first.—n. Up′per-stō′ry a story above the ground-floor: the brain.—n.pl. Up′per-ten the wealthier or leading class in a community.—adj. Up′pish assuming pretentious snobbish.—adv. Up′pishly.—n. Up′pishness.
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Examples
- In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He sat down, a little disconcerted by my presence, I thought, and without looking at me, drew his heavy sunburnt hand across and across his upper lip. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He covered with his hand the upper part of his face, but did not conceal his mouth, where I saw hovering an expression I liked. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. Plato. The Republic.
- Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Miss Lucas perceived him from an upper window as he walked towards the house, and instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They come to a building in the yard with an office on an upper floor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Near this stand-pipe in the upper story is placed a water supply tank. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She found in an upper-class official, Calonne, her ideal minister of finance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He could hear laughter in the upper rooms. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The sheets of rubber from which the uppers and soles are cut are at this stage of the work plastic and very sticky. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cheap shoes could only be made by roughly fastening the soles to the uppers by wooden pegs, whose row of projecting points within has made many a man and boy do unnecessary penance. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The uppers are cut by hand from the engraved sheets, while metal patterns are used on the plain stock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These and other machines complete the soles and heels, which are finally sent to the making or bottoming room, where the completed shoe uppers await them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1809, David Mead Randolph of England patented machinery for riveting soles and heels to the uppers instead of sewing them together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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