upper

Енглески

Изговор

• (Received Pronunciation) МФА^(кључ): /ˈʌpə/
• (General American) МФА^(кључ): /ˈʌpɚ/

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• Hyphenation: up‧per
• Риме: -ʌpə(r)

Adjective

upper (comparative uppermore, superlative uppermost)

1. At a higher level, rank or position.
2. Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
3. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent
4. (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.

Antonyms

• (at a higher position): lower, under
• (situated higher): lower
• (more recent): lower

Изведени термини

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• upper arm
• upper case
• upper class
• upper house
• Upper Marlboro
• uppermost
• Upper Peninsula
• Upper Sandusky
• Upper Sorbian
• Upper Volta

 

Преводи

at a higher level, rank or position

• Arabic: أَعْلَى‎ (ʾaʿlā)
• Armenian: վերին (hy) (verin)
• Belarusian: ве́рхні (vjérxni)
• Catalan: superior (ca)
• Кинески:

  Mandarin: 上的 (zh) (shàng de)

• Finnish: ylempi (fi), korkeampi (fi)
• French: supérieur (fr)
• Georgian: ზედა (zeda), ზემო (zemo), ზემოთა (zemota)
• German: oberer (de)

• Хебрејски: עליון‎ m (elyón)
• Italian: superiore (it)
• Persian: بالاتر‎ (fa) (bālātar)
• Portuguese: superior (pt), acima (pt), de cima (pt)
• Quechua: hanan, hanaq
• Russian: ве́рхний (ru) (vérxnij)
• Српски: горњи (sr)
• Spanish: superior (es)
• Swedish: övre (sv)
• Ukrainian: ве́рхній (vérxnij)

situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly

• Arabic: عُلْوِيّ‎ m (ʿulwiyy)
• Armenian: վերին (hy) (verin)
• Finnish: ylempi (fi) (higher), kaukaisempi (farther), pohjoisempi (fi) (more northerly)

• Persian: بالاتر‎ (fa) (bālātar)
• Russian: ве́рхний (ru) (vérxnij)
• Swedish: övre (sv)

of a later division of some period

• Armenian: վերին (hy) (verin)
• Catalan: alt (ca), superior (ca)

• Finnish: myöhempi
• Russian: по́здний (ru) (pózdnij)

secondary; as of school

• Finnish: ylä- (fi)

• Swedish: gymnasial

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: أَعْلَى‎ (ʾaʿlā)
• Кинески: 上邊的, 上边的 (shàngbiān-de)
• Czech: horní (cs) m
• Dutch: hoger (nl)
• French: supérieur (fr)
• German: obere (de)
• Hungarian: felső (hu)
• Italian: superiore (it)

• Japanese: 上の (うえの, ue no)
• Korean: 웃 (ko) (ut), 윗 (wit)
• Norwegian: øvre
• Portuguese: superior
• Russian: ве́рхний (ru) (vérxnij)
• Spanish: superior
• Telugu: పై (pai) (1, 2)

Именица

upper (plural uppers)

Flip-flops with several styles of uppers

1. That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.

   As the restless sleeper here, I'll take the lower berth. You take the upper.

2. (shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
   • 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 4, p. 52,^[1]

     The uppers of his patent-leather shoes were hidden by fawn spats.

3. A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
4. (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.

Meronyms

• (shoemaking): vamp

Related terms

• on one's uppers – destitute

Translations

the part of a shoe above the sole

• Maori: ngawhewhe

See also

• swan upper

Anagrams

• Ruppe