different between picket vs upright
picket
English
Etymology
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?p?k?t/
- Rhymes: -?k?t
- Hyphenation: pick?et
Noun
picket (countable and uncountable, plural pickets)
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
- So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
- (sometimes figuratively) A sentry.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
Derived terms
- picket line
- picket pin
- picket rope
Translations
Verb
picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- to picket a horse
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Derived terms
- picketing (noun)
- unpicketed
German
Pronunciation
Verb
picket
- second-person plural subjunctive I of picken
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upright
English
Etymology
From Middle English upright, uppryght, upriht, from Old English upriht (“upright; erect”), from Proto-Germanic *upprehtaz, equivalent to up- +? right. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apgjucht (“upright”), West Frisian oprjocht (“upright”), Dutch oprecht (“upright”), German Low German uprecht (“upright”), German aufrecht (“upright”), Swedish upprätt (“upright”), Icelandic upprétt (“upright”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p?a?t/
Adjective
upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright)
- Vertical; erect.
- I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The merry Deuill of Edmonton, introduction, lines 1–4
- Fab[ell]:?What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ?trikes my hart! // My ?tiffned haire ?tands vpright on my head, // As doe the bri?tles of a porcupine.
- 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress, volume V, Book X, chapter X: “A Termination”, page 372
- Supported by pillows, ?he ?at almo?t upright.
- Greater in height than breadth.
- (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- 1611, King James Version, Job 1:1:
- There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- 1611, King James Version, Job 1:1:
- (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
Synonyms
- (vertical, erect): surrect (obsolete, rare)
Derived terms
- upright bass, upright bassist
Translations
Adverb
upright (comparative more upright, superlative most upright)
- in or into an upright position
Translations
Noun
upright (plural uprights)
- Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
- A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (informal) An upright piano.
- (informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.
- 2013, Jon Peddie, The History of Visual Magic in Computers (page 181)
- The video arcade machines are typically in stand up arcade cabinets, although some have been built as tables. The uprights have a monitor and controls in front and players insert coins or tokens into the machines to play the game.
- 2013, Jon Peddie, The History of Visual Magic in Computers (page 181)
- Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
Holonyms
- (word clued by successive letters): double acrostic, triple acrostic
Related terms
- upright piano
Translations
Verb
upright (third-person singular simple present uprights, present participle uprighting, simple past and past participle uprighted)
- (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
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