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Upright vs Palisade - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between upright and palisade

is that upright is any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports while palisade is a long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.

As an adjective upright

is vertical; erect.

As an adverb upright

is in or into an upright position.

As a verb palisade is

to equip with a palisade.

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

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    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

    palisade

    English

    (wikipedia palisade)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
  • A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier
  • A line of cliffs
  • (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

    • Derived terms

    * palisade worm

    Verb

    (palisad)
  • (usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.