upper
part of speech
adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Upper means higher up, or above something else of the same kind. tree →
2) Upper can mean nearer the top of a place, a river or a land: the upper floor, the upper Nile. tree →
3) Upper can mean higher in rank or level: the upper school. tree →
4) The upper of a shoe is the top part that covers the foot. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school, «upper case» letters are capital letters (A, B, C), and «lower case» letters are small ones. «Upper school» or «upper primary» means the older classes. In science, the upper arm is between the shoulder and elbow; the upper layer of soil is topsoil. Phrases: «upper case», «upper lip», «upper floor», «the upper hand» (the advantage).
examples
- Write your name with an upper-case first letter. tree →
- We sleep on the upper floor. tree →
- The upper arm goes from the shoulder to the elbow. tree →
- Upper-school pupils help the little ones read. tree →
- The bird has a red patch on its upper wing. tree →
- With one goal more, our team had the upper hand. tree →
- Keep a stiff upper lip means stay brave and calm. tree →
- I only wish I were already on the upper bank.” [*] tree →
note
Adjective used before a noun: «the upper deck». There is no «upperer»; for comparing, use «higher». The opposite is «lower». «The upper hand» means the advantage.
In the corpora
- The trunk is the elephant's nose and upper lip joined together and grown very long.
- Instead, a curtain of baleen plates hangs from the upper jaw, made of keratin, the same stuff as your fingernails.
- In layers of sedimentary rock that have not been turned over, the lower layers are usually older than the upper ones.
- Topsoil is the dark upper layer with the most humus and life; below it lie subsoil and then solid rock.
- No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Trees and pragmatics
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