different between upright vs rite

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)

1. 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.
2. Greater in height than breadth.
3. (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.

4. (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)

1. in or into an upright position

Translations

Noun

upright (plural uprights)

1. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
2. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
3. (informal) An upright piano.
4. (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.

5. 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)

1. (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: right, wright, Wright, write

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

1. A religious custom.
2. (by extension) A prescribed behavior.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 141–42:

     But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.

Related terms

• ritual

Translations

Etymology 2

Variation of right.

Adjective

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

Derived terms

Adverb

rite (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of right.

Interjection

rite

1. Informal spelling of right.

Noun

rite (plural rites)

1. Informal spelling of right.
   1. used in unique spellings of company brand names
   2. part of the contraction and interjection amirite

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, tier, tire, trie

French

Alternative forms

• rit (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?it/

Noun

rite m (plural rites)

1. rite

Derived terms

• rite de passage

Further reading

• “rite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????t??/

Etymology 1

Participle

rite

1. past participle of righ

Adjective

rite

1. taut, tense
2. sharp, steep
3. exposed (le (“to”))
4. eager (chun (“for”))

Derived terms

• riteacht f (“tautness, tenseness; sharpness, steepness; exposedness, bleakness”)

Etymology 2

Participle

rite

1. past participle of rith

Adjective

rite

1. exhausted, extinct

Derived terms

• rite anuas, rite síos (“run down”) (in health)

References

• "rite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Etymology

From r?tus (“rite, custom”)

Adverb

r?te (not comparable)

1. according to religious usage, with due observances, with proper ceremonies, ceremonially, solemnly, duly

References

• rite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *lite. Compare Hawaiian like.

Verb

rite

1. to resemble; to be like, similar, alike

Derived terms

• whakarite: to make something equal, to make something similar

References

• “rite” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??i.t?]
• Hyphenation: ri?te

Verb

rite

1. (transitive) to plant

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 214
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 87

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rite]

Noun

rite

1. nominative/accusative plural of ri?