Definitions

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  • adjective turned over; inverted; capsized
  • adjective of a nose, etc. turned up at the end
  • adjective looking upwards, turned upwards

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used of noses) turned up at the end
  • adjective having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom

Etymologies

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up + turn + -ed

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Examples

  • And even if the messenger were not curious about these subtleties, the duke would likely have pointed them out, jesting that the intarsists had absentmindedly left the bench below the portrait of Faith "upturned," hiding the third ermine.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The men who built barrels—one of the major industries of the early American economy—were normally paid for six days of work, but on Saturday they began drinking beer in the morning, then would “sit around upturned barrels playing poker,” and generally “lounged about” until they received their weekly pay.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Photographs of the serene Springs setting where Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, some with Krasner posing, another with girlfriend Ruth Kligman, another with the fatal car upturned, collaged with cancelled checks, or snapshots, some pornographic.

    Regina Weinreich: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock at Guild Hall Regina Weinreich 2011

  • Photographs of the serene Springs setting where Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, some with Krasner posing, another with girlfriend Ruth Kligman, another with the fatal car upturned, collaged with cancelled checks, or snapshots, some pornographic.

    Regina Weinreich: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock at Guild Hall Regina Weinreich 2011

  • You may, at this point, decide to put an upturned colander on your head and make high-pitched squeaky sounds while turning the light on and off, depending on who might be watching, and whether you are six.

    How Manchester United proved us wrong and Kenny Dalglish saw us right | Simon Burnton 2011

  • Photographs of the serene Springs setting where Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, some with Krasner posing, another with girlfriend Ruth Kligman, another with the fatal car upturned, collaged with cancelled checks, or snapshots, some pornographic.

    Regina Weinreich: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock at Guild Hall Regina Weinreich 2011

  • You know the climactic scene from Brain Dead in which our hero ploughs through a crowd of zombies with an upturned power mower?

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • Photographs of the serene Springs setting where Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, some with Krasner posing, another with girlfriend Ruth Kligman, another with the fatal car upturned, collaged with cancelled checks, or snapshots, some pornographic.

    Regina Weinreich: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock at Guild Hall Regina Weinreich 2011

  • I reach out, upturned palm, and catch empty answers that trickle through my fingers, reaching, always reaching.

    Johnny Mercer's Pier Paula Ray 2010

  • Photographs of the serene Springs setting where Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked, some with Krasner posing, another with girlfriend Ruth Kligman, another with the fatal car upturned, collaged with cancelled checks, or snapshots, some pornographic.

    Regina Weinreich: Richard Prince Covers Jackson Pollock at Guild Hall Regina Weinreich 2011

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