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upper

/uhp-er/US // ˈʌp ər //UK // (ˈʌpə) //

上层,上,上部,上方

Related Words

uppermost最上层,最上面的,最上层的,最上方elevated高高在上的,高昂的,高高在上,高架high高,很高,高度,较高top顶部,顶端,顶,顶部的overhead在头顶上,头顶上,头顶上的,在头顶上的elite精英,菁英,精华,精英荟萃upward向上,向上的,向上移动,向上看topmost最重要的,最上面的,最顶端的,最重要的是loftier领先的,领先者,领先,领先优势more elevated更高的海拔,更加高大上,更加高涨,更加高大上的beautiful美丽的,美丽eminent杰出的,杰出,知名,知名人士important重要,重要的,重要的是,很重要greater更大,更多,更大的,更多的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : higher, as in place, position, pitch, or in a scale: the upper stories of a house; the upper register of a singer's voice.
    • : superior, as in rank, dignity, or station.
    • : at a higher level, more northerly, or farther from the sea: the upper slopes of a mountain; upper New York State.
    • : Stratigraphy. denoting a later division of a period, system, or the like: the Upper Devonian.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the part of a shoe or boot above the sole, comprising the quarter, vamp, counter, and lining.
    • : an upper berth.
    • : a gaiter made of cloth.Compare gaiter.
    • : Usually uppers , an upper dental plate.an upper tooth.
    • : Informal. the higher of two bunks or berths.

Phrases

  • upper crust
  • upper hand
  • upper story
  • keep a stiff upper lip
  • on one's uppers

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.above
Synonyms
uppermost最上层,最上面的,最上层的,最上方high高,很高,高度,较高overhead在头顶上,头顶上,头顶上的,在头顶上的top顶部,顶端,顶,顶部的higher更高的,更高,较高,较高的loftier领先的,领先者,领先,领先优势topmost最重要的,最上面的,最顶端的,最重要的是upward向上,向上的,向上移动,向上看
adj.superior
Synonyms
elevated高高在上的,高昂的,高高在上,高架elite精英,菁英,精华,精英荟萃beautiful美丽的,美丽eminent杰出的,杰出,知名,知名人士greater更大,更多,更大的,更多的important重要,重要的,重要的是,很重要more important更重要的,更重要,更重要的是,更为重要

Examples

  • High temperatures may once again stay below freezing, in the upper 20s to low 30s.

  • Temperatures tonight reach the low 20s well north to the upper 20s well south.

  • In the upper two thirds of the oven, there’s still a lot of room to play around.

  • Temperatures still struggle to warm much, with highs in the upper 30s.

  • Those upper-ocean waters held 234 sextillion joules more heat energy in 2020 than the annual average from 1981 to 2010.

  • Kanye refuses to stomach any rejection, no matter how upper crust.

  • If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.

  • White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.

  • Targeting her upper back, Couple sat cross-legged on a table while she whipped her slave.

  • When I came to New York after college I was taken with the world of Jewish intellectuals and the Upper West Side.

  • “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

  • On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.

  • It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.

  • The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.

  • The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.

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