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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upside
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
upside down
▪ To get the plant out of the pot, turn it upside down and give it a gentle knock.
upside down
▪ an upside down U shape
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
turn sth upside down
▪ A distorted religion has turned the world upside down, denying that anything ever existed before itself.
▪ I turn the box upside down and bring it out empty.
▪ The girl was turning everything upside down.
▪ The history of implants has been equally painful; implants can shift or turn themselves upside down.
▪ They studied the map for a while, scratched their heads, turned it upside down and studied it some more.
▪ We could turn the glass upside down and sideways without having the water pour out because air pressure pushes in all directions.
▪ Yet with an appealing brew of nationalism and promise of democratic reform, Kostunica has since turned Yugoslav politics upside down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Of course, there is an upside to every quandary.
▪ On the upside, the move to concentrate thermal production in Pennsylvania helped margins through increased productivity.
▪ Rookie Kenny Shedd has a definite upside.
▪ So what's the upside then?
▪ Where, really, is the upside here?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upside

Upside \Up"side`\, n.

  1. The upper side; the part that is uppermost.

  2. the benefits; the positive features; -- said of a situation or event that has both positive (good) and negative (bad) aspects.

    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. 6.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
upside

1610s, "upper side or surface," from up (adj.) + side (n.). Adverbial phrase upside (someone's) head in reference to a blow to the head is recorded from 1970, U.S. black slang.

Wiktionary
upside

alt. (context informal English) On the top of. n. 1 the highest or uppermost side or portion of something 2 a favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect 3 an upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc prep. (context informal English) On the top of.

WordNet
upside

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" [syn: top, top side, upper side]

Wikipedia
Upside (magazine)

Upside was a San Francisco-based business and technology magazine for venture capitalists. It was published from 1989 to 2002. It had a circulation above 300,000.

Upside

Upside can refer to:

  • Upside (magazine) was a San Francisco-based business and technology magazine
  • Upside Records, a record label
  • Upside (film), a 2010 American film
Upside (film)

Upside is a 2010 American dramatic film written and directed by Ken Horstmann and set in Atlanta, Georgia. It stars Randall Bentley.

Usage examples of "upside".

The upside consists of an enhanced sensibility, which is, arguably, a more than adequate compensation.

The next turn around, Yang has worked his way up into the pack of Chinese, and it is little Bling who is bringing up the rear, looking as disheveled as ever in a U of Beijing track singlet, his number on upside down.

At her feet, Caille sat cross-legged with the tavern cat upside down in the cradle of her legs, its eyes squinched shut and its head flung blissfully back against her as she stroked its throat.

A raven swung upside down on a whalebone perch, making the soft chuffing noises of a bird whose vocal cords had felt the heat of a throat-iron upon hatching.

Upside, enslaved here to the shackles of righteous employment, too tired to think straight, and Chyde is free as a bee down Southstairs, out of mortal company, light, and beauty.

As clear and as clean as the sea was, even the lantern light at full night was enough to reveal the outlines of the small cog listing nearly upside down in the water.

I looked over his shoulder and saw a cuneiform inscription hanging on the wall upside down.

On the cover of the fourth issue, readers were startled to see the Escapist lift an entire panzer over his head, upside down, and tumble a pile of Gothsylvanian soldiers from its hatch like a kid shaking pennies out of a pig.

There was no leak from the gasolene tanks, which was one of the contingencies Tom feared, and, as he had said, the motors would work upside down as well as right side up, a fact he had proved more than once in his Hawk.

Eve, she was doing the kantirs of a fourth-level water flowing pattern when she saw Ghillie, upside down from her position at that moment, staring at her open-mouthed around the newel of the spiral stair.

The ginseng aroma made my eyes water, and I turned the casket upside down.

That, like his cousin Gis, who had found his true love when he had been so much younger than Ralph, he was committed to another, body and soul, and his world was turned upside down.

The fourth fellow followed with a pack tied across his back, a gittern hanging upside down upon it, and a spotted dog in his arms.

Angela lifted up the pot of boiling water and turned it upside down, dumping the cooked gnocchi into a colander.

In an argument, the truck would have the better of it far too quickly, simply by turning head-on, making for the body of the old jalopy and turning it upside down.