uprights

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as inpicket
as inpier
as inpillar
as instalk
as ingoody two-shoes
as instanchion
as incolumn

Synonyms for uprights

noun appendage used for support

Antonyms for uprights

whole

Word Origin & History

Old English upriht, from up "up" + riht "right." Similar compounds are found in other Germanic languages (cf. Old Frisian upriucht, Middle Dutch oprecht, Old High German ufreht, German aufrecht, Old Norse uprettr). Figurative sense of "good, honest" is first attested 1520s. The noun in the sense of "something standing erect" is from 1742.

Example Sentences for uprights

Gilberte had to support herself against one of the uprights of the shed.

The manner in which the shelves are supported by the uprights is as follows.

Therefore, let your uprights be eleven inches and your shelves nine inches in width.

They had neither poles to serve as uprights, nor ropes to be stretched between them.

Its round stem is employed as uprights and rafters for their houses.

Yes, I can see the planks and uprights; it is the guillotine!

Like a flash the knife dropped down the uprights and severed the truss in two.

There were plenty of vines, with which I bound the cross-pieces to the trunk and to the uprights.

Uprights were bending a little here, a trifle out of plumb there.

The uprights are of the same thickness, and about seven inches high.