uppers
plural of upper
The parts of a pair of shoes that do not normally contact the ground.
• Ruppes, supper
Source: Wiktionary
Up"per, a.; comp. of Up.
Definition: Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.).
– Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth.
– Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
РUpper covert (Zo̦l.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills.
– Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck.
– Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes.
– Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.
– Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.] -- Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail.
– Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water.
– Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.
Up"per, n.
Definition: The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
