monolith vs upright

monolith

verb
  • To cast (one or more concrete components) in a single piece with no joints. 

  • To reduce the height and size of (a dead tree) by breaking off or cutting its branches. 

  • To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith. 

noun
  • A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times. 

  • A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc. 

  • A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches. 

  • Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure. 

upright

verb
  • To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). 

adj
  • Greater in height than breadth. 

  • Of good morals; practicing ethical values. 

  • Vertical; erect 

  • Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft. 

  • In its proper orientation; not overturned. 

noun
  • An upright piano. 

  • An upright arcade game cabinet. 

  • A leg 

  • A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic. 

  • A goal post. 

  • Any vertical part of a structure. 

adv
  • In or into an upright position. 

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