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Perpendicular vs Upright - What's the difference?

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Perpendicular is a related term of upright.


As adjectives the difference between perpendicular and upright

is that perpendicular is (architecture) of a style of english gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries while upright is vertical; erect.

As an adverb upright is

in or into an upright position.

As a noun upright is

any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.

perpendicular

English

(wikipedia perpendicular)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
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    • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.}}
    In most houses, the walls are perpendicular to the floor .

    Synonyms

    * evendown * normal * orthogonal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
  • A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.

    • upright

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in or into an upright position

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 5 , author=Mark Ashenden , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright .}}
  • 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.

    • Holonyms

    * (word clued by successive letters) double acrostic, triple acrostic

    Related terms

    * upright piano