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UPSIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The highest or uppermost side of anything
Example:
only the top side of the box was painted
Synonyms:
top; top side; upper side; upside
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("upside" is a kind of...):
face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upside"):
crest; crown (the center of a cambered road)
poll (the part of the head between the ears)
crown; pate; poll (the top of the head)
desktop (the top of a desk)
rooftop (the top of a (usually flat) roof)
tiptop (the extreme top or summit)
Context examples:
Then the bed rolled on as if six horses were harnessed to it, up and down, over thresholds and stairs, but suddenly hop, hop, it turned over upside down, and lay on him like a mountain.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over and read:—Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, on July, 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at Kettleness.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The whole place was turned upside down, drawers burst open, and presses ransacked, with the result that an odd volume of Pope’s ‘Homer,’ two plated candlesticks, an ivory letter-weight, a small oak barometer, and a ball of twine are all that have vanished.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the upside, you have Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, in this same eighth house of other people’s money, which will staunchly protect your interests in the end.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
On going up to put away her best hat, Jo's first look was toward the bureau, for in their last quarrel Amy had soothed her feelings by turning Jo's top drawer upside down on the floor.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
That, perhaps, in short, this Prerogative Office of the diocese of Canterbury was altogether such a pestilent job, and such a pernicious absurdity, that but for its being squeezed away in a corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, which few people knew, it must have been turned completely inside out, and upside down, long ago.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Still, there is an upside to having Saturn and Pluto hammering you professionally, for you have become wiser and have grown in authority—this terrible boss or client may have brought out the best in you (although you may not want to admit it).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Just come and help me put these books to rights, for I've turned everything upside down, trying to discover what he has done with the six new handkerchiefs I gave him not long ago.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The upside of the Sun conjunct Neptune is that if you work in the arts—perhaps as an actor, artist, photographer, musician, director of an art gallery or curator of a museum, or any of the many other jobs that deal in the creative or cultural arts—you may conclude an agreement for a large sale within four days of this full moon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
