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UPTURNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of noses) turned up at the end
Example:
a small upturned nose
Synonyms:
retrousse; tip-tilted; upturned
Classified under:
Similar:
shapely (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
Example:
sat on an upturned bucket
Synonyms:
overturned; upset; upturned
Classified under:
Similar:
turned (moved around an axis or center)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb upturn
Context examples:
The program also outperformed doctors in spotting patients with Angelman syndrome and Cornelia de Lange syndrome—an inherited genetic mutation that can cause, among other symptoms, low-set ears and an upturned nose—versus other disorders, and in separating patients with different genetic subtypes of Noonan syndrome.
(Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used to Diagnose Rare Disorders with Just A Picture, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
At their very feet was the square courtyard, crowded with the howling and dancing peasants, their fierce faces upturned, their clenched hands waving, all drunk with bloodshed and with vengeance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The woman looked at him intently, and ground her heel into his upturned face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was not concerned with the land of little sticks, nor with Bill and the cache under the upturned canoe by the river Dease.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
For my own part, being a smallish man, I should have seen nothing had I not found an upturned bucket in a corner, upon which I perched myself with the wall at my back.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Nigel sprang lightly upon the trunk, and stood with blinking eye and firm lips looking down at the ring of upturned warlike faces.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He lay upon his back, his face upturned, with his white teeth grinning through his short, black beard.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would cross this divide to the first trickle of another stream, flowing to the west, which he would follow until it emptied into the river Dease, and here he would find a cache under an upturned canoe and piled over with many rocks.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A strange figure he seemed to his three squires, perched on his huge horse, with his eyes upturned and the wintry sun shimmering upon his bald head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
