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Meaning of UPSIDE

Pronunciation:  'up`sId

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted"
 
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 Synonyms: top, top side, upper side
 
 See Also: crest, crown, desktop, face, pate, poll, rooftop, side

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Up"side`\, n.
The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
{To be upsides with}, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
   --Sir W. Scott. --T. Hughes.
{Upside down}. [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down,
   literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost;
   hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy.
   --Shak.
         These that have turned the world upside down are
         come hither also.                     --Acts xvii.
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