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Upside-down   /ˈəpsˈaɪd-daʊn/   Listen
Upside-down

adjective
1.
Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed.  Synonym: inverted.  "An upside-down cake"



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"Upside-down" Quotes from Famous Books



... everything from his judicial seat, "Hang him!" Another would have died like a fly at this conflict with the maid's innocence, but Bruyn was of such an iron nature that it was difficult to finish him off. One evening that Blanche had turned the house upside-down, upset the men and the beasts, and would by her aggravating humour have made the eternal father desperate—he who has such an infinite treasure of patience since he endures us—she said to the seneschal while getting into bed, "My good Bruyn, I have low down fancies, that bite and prick me; thence ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... profess to be very much engrossed with your grammar—turned upside-down; you think it must have hurt, and are only sorry that it did not happen to a tall, dark-faced boy, who cheated you in a swop of jackknives. You innocently think that he must be a very bad boy, and fancy—aided by a suggestion of the old nurse at home on the same point—that he ...
— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell

... between the body and the principal entrance of the death chamber; and the kaimyo, inscribed upon a strip of white paper, is fastened upon the screen. If the dead be young the screen must be turned upside-down; but this is not done in the ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... to decade, to be allowing, and in the most liberal and intelligent manner, for brilliancy of change. He actually saw that he had allowed for nothing; he missed what he would have been sure of finding, he found what he would never have imagined. Proportions and values were upside-down; the ugly things he had expected, the ugly things of his far-away youth, when he had too promptly waked up to a sense of the ugly—these uncanny phenomena placed him rather, as it happened, under the charm; whereas the "swagger" things, the modern, the monstrous, the famous things, ...
— The Jolly Corner • Henry James

... other stands on it in the ordinary position. A rim, from 1 in. to 2 in. in height, is fixed round the eage of the upper saucer, but a little within it, and over this rim fits a cylinder with a top, slightly domed, which also resembles a saucer turned upside-down. In the centre of the top is a circular ventilator, through which steam, generated in baking, can escape, and the ventilator is covered by a domed plate, as large as the top of the oven. This acts as a ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous



Words linked to "Upside-down" :   turned, inverted, upside-down cake



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