Italic vs. Upright

Italicadjective

Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.

Italicadjective

Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.

Italicnoun

(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.

Italicnoun

An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.

Italicadjective

Relating to Italy or to its people.

Italicadjective

Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; - so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.

Italicnoun

An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); - often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

Italicnoun

a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right

Italicnoun

a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative

Italicnoun

a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

Italicadjective

characterized by slanting characters;

Italicadjective

of or relating to the Italic languages;

Italicadjective

relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.

Italicnoun

the Italic group of languages.

Uprightadjective

Vertical; erect.

Uprightadjective

Greater in height than breadth.

Uprightadjective

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

Uprightadjective

(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Uprightadverb

in or into an upright position

Uprightnoun

Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.

Uprightnoun

A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

Uprightnoun

(informal) An upright piano.

Uprightnoun

Short for upright vacuum cleaner.

Uprightverb

(transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

Uprightadjective

In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

Uprightadjective

Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

Uprightadjective

Conformable to moral rectitude.

Uprightadjective

Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

Uprightadjective

Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Uprightnoun

Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

Uprightnoun

A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.

Uprightnoun

the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly between the uprights.

Uprightnoun

a vertical structural member as a post or stake;

Uprightnoun

a piano with a vertical sounding board

Uprightadjective

in a vertical position; not sloping;

Uprightadjective

of moral excellence;

Uprightadjective

erect in posture;

Uprightadjective

maintaining an erect position;

Uprightadjective

upright in position or posture;