| upright | 1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. "With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright." (Dryden) "All have their ears upright." (Spenser) 2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways. "And that man [Job] was perfect and upright." (Job i. 1) 3. Conformable to moral rectitude. "Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure." (J. M. Mason) 4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. " He lay upright. <machinery>" Upright drill, a drilling machine having the spindle vertical. This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the accent on the first syllable. But they are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is admissible. Origin: AS. Upright, uppriht. See Up, and Right. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| uprun | To run up; to ascend. "The young sun That in the Ram is four degrees uprun." (Chaucer) "[A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to manhood." (Cowper) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upsarokas | <ethnology> See Crows. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upset | Set up; fixed; determined; used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold. "After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan." (Sir W. Scott) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upshot | Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation. "I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot." (Shak) "We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence." (De Quincey) Origin: Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. The phrase to cast up an account. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upsiloid | <anatomy> Resembling the Greek letter <UPSILON/ in form; hyoid. Origin: From <UPSILON/, the Greek letter called "upsilon". Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upsilon | 20th Letter in the Greek alphabet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| upsitting | A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends. "To invite your lady's upsitting." (Beau. & Fl) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upstart | 1. One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu. 2. <botany> The meadow saffron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upstream | <molecular biology> Refers to nucleotide sequences that precede the codons specifying the mRNA or that precede (are on the 5' side of) the protein coding sequence. Also used of the early events in any process that involves sequential reactions. (18 Nov 1997) |
| upstream activation site | A DNA sequence that regulates transcription like an enhancer but does notwork if its located downstream from a promoter. (09 Oct 1997) |
| uptake | The absorption by a tissue of some substance, food material, mineral, etc. And its permanent or temporary retention. (05 Mar 2000) |
| uptake hydrogenase | <enzyme> Isolated from heterocysts of aerobically grown anabena filaments; also from rhodobacter capsulatus; belongs to the class of nife hydrogenases; allows the cell to grow autographically with h(2) as the electron source; isolated as a heterodimer comprising a small and large subunit; has been sequenced Registry number: EC 1.12.- Synonym: h2-oxidizing(uptake) hydrogenase, hydrogenase II, h2-uptake hydrogenase (26 Jun 1999) |
| upthrow | <chemical> See Throw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upupa | <ornithology> A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe. Origin: L, the hoopoe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| upper extremity |
Having to do with the upper part of the body. In reference to amputees with arm or shoulder amputations.
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| upper GI series |
An X-ray exam of the upper part of the digestive tract.
출처: www.radgrp.org/info/glossary.html
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| upsilon |
adverb - One of the two directions pointing out of realmspace into tetraspace; movement in the positive w direction. In tetraspace, represented by the vector <0,0,0,1>. This term refers to the direction analogous to up; the 'u' in 'upsilon' corresponds to the 'u' in 'up'. In some literature, this direction is referred to as kata. This term is the same direction as wint, but is used in a different context: upsilon is movement from realmspace to tetraspace, but wint is a turning direction. ...
출처: tetraspace.alkaline.org/glossary.htm
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| upsilon. |
adverb - One of the two directions pointing out of realmspace into tetraspace; movement in the positive w direction. In tetraspace, represented by the vector <0,0,0,1>. This term refers to the direction analogous to up; the 'u' in 'upsilon' corresponds to the 'u' in 'up'. In some literature, this direction is referred to as kata. This term is the same direction as wint, but is used in a different context: upsilon is movement from realmspace to tetraspace, but wint is a turning direction. ...
출처: tetraspace.alkaline.org/glossary.htm
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| upper motor neuron |
refers to the nerve cell that starts in the cerebral cortex, winds its way down through the brain and then into the spinal cord and that carries information about movement to the lower motor neuron. Damage to the upper motor neuron results in spasticity and deep tendon flexes (like the knee jerk) that are too brisk, while damage to the lower motor neurons results in weakness and decreased reflexes.
출처: www.rettsyndrome.org/digests/00008.htm
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| UP | pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic |
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| UP | heading in any direction that is conventionally up |
| UP | utter a reproach to |
| UP | someone who finds fault or imputes blame |
| UP | a severe scolding |
| UP | raising someone to be an accepted member of the community |
| UP | properties acquired during a person's formative years |
| UP | air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine |
| UP | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth |
| UP | of the relatively near future |
| UP | of or coming from the middle of a region or country |
| UP | curving upward |