upper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat At a higher physical position, level, rank or order.
2. sıfat Situated on higher ground, further inland, more upstream, or more northerly.
3. sıfat Younger, more recent.
4. sıfat Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
5. isim 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.”

6. isim Anything that cheers one up.
7. isim 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.”

8. isim The piece of material that forms the top part of a shoe or boot above the sole.

   “genuine leather upper / balance manmade [label on a shoe]”

9. isim The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
10. isim Someone with higher social standing

    “Thus a vicious circle is established: the uppers offer participation, and the lowers, feeling persecuted, withdraw.”

11. isim 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.”

12. isim That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.

    “Next, take up slack equally on the two uppers until they are snug.”

13. isim 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.”

14. isim A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.

    “The lower (according to the patient) was perfect, but the upper was bad, and the dentist was going to make the upper again.”

15. isim An upper berth or bunk.

    “But trains have changed. Gone are the uppers and lowers, partitions and cranks, and the green velour; only the porter remains, the same man, I think, a black man with palms the color of shrimp and a neck swollen with dislike.”

16. isim 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).”