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Upper

adjective

The topmost one of two.

Higher in place or position. "In the upper center of the picture" , "The upper stories"

Superior in rank or accomplishment.

noun

The higher of two berths. Synonym: upper berth.

Piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot.

A central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression. Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, speed.

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"Upper" Quotes from Famous Books

... The city extends some four and a half miles along the left bank of the Hooghly, and its breadth between the "Circular Road" and the river is about a mile and a half. If one cuts off from this space that part which lies south of a line drawn eastward from the Beebee Ross Ghat to the Upper Circular Road—the northern portion thus segregated being the native town—one has a veritable city of palaces; and when to these one adds the magnificent suburbs lying beyond the old circumvallation of the "Mahratta ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... samples being generally lighter. Samples taken from even the same deposit have been found to differ very considerably in appearance, those taken from the lower and older layers being usually darker than those taken from the more recent upper layers. It was soon found also to vary very much in composition. After a deposit had been worked for some time, the quality of guano it yielded was found to be inferior and coarser, and in many cases mixed with pebbles or pieces of granite, porphyry, &c. This led to the custom of screening ...

— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman

... to carry on a partisan warfare with the Dervish raiders, to look longingly towards Gedaref, and to nurse the hope that when Omdurman has fallen their opportunity will come. The reader, like the Sirdar, must return in a hurry to the Upper Nile. ...

— The River War • Winston S. Churchill

... as suddenly dived into a spruce thicket. On the other side of it Thorpe unexpectedly found himself in an extensive clearing, dotted with the blackened stumps of pines. Athwart the distance he could perceive the wide blue horizon of Lake Michigan. He had crossed the Upper Peninsula ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... saw the upper classmen go past, and it seemed to poor Harry that every fellow stared at him and grinned. The sophs added to his misery and anger by winking at him, and Tad Horner ventured to go through a swift pantomime of taking ...

— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish

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