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单词 upside
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upsiden.

Forms: Also up-side.
Etymology: up- prefix 1a. Compare Danish opside.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈupside.
1. The upper side or surface (of a thing); the upper half or part.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > upper part
over-endeOE
over-halfOE
overpartya1387
overparta1398
overera1400
upperside1484
upside1611
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > upper surface
overpartya1387
upside1611
topside1678
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Reboursant,..turning, or standing inside outward, or the vpside downe.
1654 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 316 Two foote 6 inches from the vpside of the trusse to the vpside of the floore.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 65 Till the whole upside of the Stuff be Plained.
1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 5 With the upside down, to shew Its inclination for below.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 56 The factionnaire seized the document, and looked at it upside and downside for some time.
1842 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. 177 It should then be..put into a dry cloth with the upside down.
1867 A. D. Whitney Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life v. 75 This glass is in such a horrid light! I don't seem to have but half a face, and I can't tell which is the up-side of that!
2. upside of, above, beyond.
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1890 Notes & Queries 26 July 73/1 People whose ages are up-side of forty.
3. (See up adj. 2b) Also attributive.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > side for up-trains
upside1880
1880 Daily News 13 Dec. 6/7 The upside road [of the railway]..was quite clear.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 7/3 The crowd that thronged the up-side of the station.
4. Commerce. An upward movement of share prices, etc.; also = upside potential. Also as adj., esp. upside potential, the possibility of (gain from) such a rise in value.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > rise or tendency to rise
rally1826
results1829
bull run1882
buoyancy1883
firming-up1896
recovery movement1896
performance1926
upside1961
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1969 Punch 5 Feb. 206/1 The share price..needs to improve by only 50 per cent... Likewise, your original upside potential would be considerably higher.
1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. xvi. 175 Most parameters have up-side and down-side possibilities in addition to a most probable value.
1983 Sunday Tel. 27 Feb. 20/7 The share price..is vulnerable to even the most modest of bear rumour and.. the downside substantially exceeds the upside.
1983 Observer 29 May 19/1 Could Pilkington Brothers..be poised to meet that dream investment criterion—downside risk low; upside potential high?
1984 Times 18 June 17/3 The upside should again be approximate yield parity with the equity market.
5. quasi-adv. or prep.: upside (one's) head, knot, (of a blow) on the head; esp. to go upside (someone's) head, etc., to strike on the head; to attack or fight. Chiefly U.S. Black English’.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)]
fightc900
deal993
wraxlec1000
skirm?c1225
makec1275
mellc1300
to fight togethera1400
meddlec1400
match1440
wring1470
cobc1540
toilc1540
strike1579
beat1586
scuffle1590
exchange blows1594
to bang it out or aboutc1600
buffeta1616
tussle1638
dimicate1657
to try a friskin1675
to battle it1821
muss1851
scrap1874
to mix it1905
dogfight1929
yike1940
to go upside (someone's) head1970
1970 H. E. Roberts Third Ear 14/2 Upside one's head, to fight someone.
1971 Black Scholar Apr. 35/2 This is until a white cop comes up and go upside your knot.
1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 6 The TV slap of a pigstick upside some sister's head in front of an Alabama courthouse.
1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 33/3 There is a further penalty of a hit upside the head for stiffing the toll collector.
1978 J. Wambaugh Black Marble iv. 28 When I busted her old man that time he went upside her head with a meat mallet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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