UPSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upside mean? 

• UPSIDE (noun)
  The noun UPSIDE has 1 sense:

1. the highest or uppermost side of anything

  Familiarity information: UPSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest or uppermost side of anything

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

top; top side; upper side; upside

Context example:

only the top side of the box was painted

Hypernyms ("upside" is a kind of...):

face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upside"):

crest; crown (the center of a cambered road)

poll (the part of the head between the ears)

crown; pate; poll (the top of the head)

desktop (the top of a desk)

rooftop (the top of a (usually flat) roof)

tiptop (the extreme top or summit)

 Context examples 

You're a pretty colour, certainly; why, your liver, man, is upside down.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Number four boat!” Oofty-Oofty cried, his keen eyes reading its number in the one second when it lifted clear of the foam, and upside down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I hastened to comply with his friendly suggestion, and opening Peggotty's purse, turned it upside down into his hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The act of turning inside out, upside down, or end-for-end.

(Inversion, NCI Thesaurus)

Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A procedure in which a rounded glass cup is warmed and placed upside down over an area of the body, creating suction that holds the cup to the skin.

(Cupping, NCI Dictionary)

Mercury retrograde can be annoying at times, but it has an upside, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The sled was upside down and jammed between a tree-trunk and a huge rock, and they were forced to unharness the dogs in order to straighten out the tangle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The new, alternative models for some of the smaller lakes (tens of miles across) turns that theory upside down: It proposes pockets of liquid nitrogen in Titan's crust warmed, turning into explosive gas that blew out craters, which then filled with liquid methane.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)