UPPER

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upper I. adjectiv

superior, de sus, (de) deasupra; din vârf, din cap;

the Upper Volta Volta Superioară;

The Upper Rhine cursul superior al Rinului;

in Upper Egypt în Egiptul de Sus;

the Upper House Camera Superioară;

(în Anglia Camera Lorzilor) the upper servants servitorii superiori (intendenţi etc.).

upper II. substantiv

1. căpută, faţă (de gheată sau pantof);

(el.) to be (down) on one's uppers a fi lefter / fără o para chioară / fără o lăscaie.

2. plural ghetre, moletiere.

3. plural (fig.) the uppers pătura avută, grangurii, bogătaşii.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“You could do some of them over now,” said Jackson, feeling my friend’s upper arm.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Both of them had spent their lives in those upper waters of the Amazon which we were about to explore, and it was this recommendation which had caused Lord John to engage them.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She must try to find amusement in what was passing at the upper end of the table, and in observing Mr. Rushworth, who was now making his appearance at Mansfield for the first time since the Crawfords' arrival.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

As I did so I happened to glance out of one of the upper windows, and saw the maid with whom I had just been speaking running across the field in the direction of the cottage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The prevalence of methane-consuming bacteria in the upper lake sediment suggests a methane biofilter prevents the gas from entering the subglacial water, where it can eventually drain into the ocean and be released into the atmosphere.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

It is a large house; but Traddles keeps his papers in his dressing-room and his boots with his papers; and he and Sophy squeeze themselves into upper rooms, reserving the best bedrooms for the Beauty and the girls.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

New research on solar storms finds that they not only can cause regions of excessive electrical charge in the upper atmosphere above Earth's poles, they also can do the exact opposite: cause regions that are nearly depleted of electrically charged particles.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

From a drawer he produced what seemed to me to be the upper portion of the wing of a large bat.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The painter hadn't made the scar, but I made it; and there it was, coming and going; now confined to the upper lip as I had seen it at dinner, and now showing the whole extent of the wound inflicted by the hammer, as I had seen it when she was passionate.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"Shall we take anything to drink?" called Daisy from an upper window.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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