upright

  1. Adjective.  Vertical; erect.
  2. Adjective.  Greater in height than breadth.
  3. Adjective.  (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
  4. Adverb.  in or into an upright position.
  5. Noun.  Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
  6. Noun.  A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
  7. Noun.  (informal) An upright piano.

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