different between uplead vs uplean

English

Etymology

From up- +? lead.

Noun

uplead (plural upleads)

1. (telecommunications) The line or lines connecting the output of a transmitter to its antenna.

Related terms

• downlead

Verb

uplead (third-person singular simple present upleads, present participle upleading, simple past and past participle upled)

1. (transitive, rare) To lead upward.

Anagrams

• duplae, lead up, lead-up, leadup

English

Etymology

From up- +? lean.

Verb

uplean (third-person singular simple present upleans, present participle upleaning, simple past and past participle upleant or upleaned)

1. (transitive, intransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
   • 1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193,^[1]

     The western sky is wallen

     With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge

     Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen,

     And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean

     Their silver cones upon the crimson verge

     Of the high zenith,

   • 1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189,^[2]

     I forced the slowly yielding door

     That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more,

     And found all that the winds withstood,

     Was an upleaning piece of wood.

   • 1895, Orelia Key Bell, “And every morning as I passed her bower” in Poems, Philadelphia: Rodgers, p. 181,^[3]

     […] that liquid cadency

     Seep’d thro’ the casement to the birds and me,

     Who upleaning drank, and drinking upleaned more.

   • 1902, George Macdonald Major, “A Chinatown Idyll” in Lays of Chinatown, New York: The Lloyd Press, 2nd edition, p. 64,^[4]

     A rakish hat was tilted o’er his eyes.

     A cigarette, with intermittent fire,

     Upleaned to meet it from his stern set lips.

   • 1912, John Muir, The Yosemite, New York: Century, 1920, Chapter 14, p. 244,^[5]

     […] the snow which covered the glacier was melted into upleaning, icy blades which were extremely difficult to cross […]

2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To lean (on something).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 2, p. 422,^[6]

     With that vpleaning on her elbow weake,

     Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,

   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Virgils Gnat” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonbie,^[7]

     […] thus his carelesse time

     This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt,

     And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime,

Anagrams

• Lupane, Nepaul, lupane, unpale