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• upended — v. turn on end; disturb …   English contemporary dictionary

• upended — adjective turned up on end • Similar to: ↑vertical, ↑perpendicular …   Useful english dictionary

• tennis — /ten is/, n. a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half. Cf. lawn tennis. See illus. under racket2.… …   Universalium

• Mint-made errors — are errors in a coin made by the mint during the minting process. Mint error coins can be the result of deterioration of the minting equipment, accidents or malfunctions during the minting process, or intentional interventions by mint… …   Wikipedia

• upend — verb 1. become turned or set on end the airplanes upended • Derivationally related forms: ↑upending • Hypernyms: ↑overturn, ↑turn over, ↑tip over, ↑tump over • …   Useful english dictionary

• upend — [[t]ʌ̱pe̱nd[/t]] upends, upending, upended VERB If you upend something, you turn it upside down. [V n] He upended the beer, and swallowed. [V ed] ...upended flower pots …   English dictionary

• up|end — «uhp EHND», transitive verb, intransitive verb. 1. to set on end; stand on end: »If you upend the box it will take less space. 2. a) to upset or throw into turmoil: »The volatility of Mercer s temperament surely owes something to a childhood… …   Useful english dictionary

• bisj pole — Carved wooden pole used in the religious rites of the South Pacific islands. The poles, 12–26 ft (4–8 m) tall, resemble an upended canoe with an exaggerated prow; they consist of carved figures placed one atop the other (thought to represent… …   Universalium

• upend — verb a) To end up; to set on end When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both. b) To tip or turn over. The scientific evidence upended the popular myth …   Wiktionary

• upend — UK [ʌpˈend] / US verb [transitive] Word forms upend : present tense I/you/we/they upend he/she/it upends present participle upending past tense upended past participle upended 1) to turn something upside down 2) mainly journalism to deliberately… …   English dictionary

• Andrew Carnegie — Infobox Person name = Andrew Carnegie caption = birth date = birth date|1835|11|25 birth place = Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom death date = Death date and age|1919|8|11|1835|11|25 death place = Shadow Brook Lenox, Massachusetts, United States …   Wikipedia