Vertical
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A vertex or zenith A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds. A vertical component of a structure.
Example sentence: The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that's something you can't measure. That's something you can't measure about Rod Smith.
Upright
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Vertical; erect.Greater in height than breadth.Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: In or into an upright position.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in American and Rugby football.A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.An upright piano.
Example sentence: I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.