Italic vs. Upright

Of or relating to ancient Italy or its peoples or cultures.

Being in a vertical position or direction

Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.

Erect in posture or carriage

Italic Of or being a style of printing type patterned on a Renaissance script with the letters slanting to the right

Adhering strictly to moral principles; righteous.

The Italic branch of Indo-European.

Designed with the pedals below the seat to allow an erect posture rather than a reclining one

Often italics Italic print or typeface.

Vertically

Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.

A perpendicular position; verticality.

Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.

Something, such as a goalpost, that stands upright.

(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.

An upright piano.

An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.

An upright bicycle.

Relating to Italy or to its people.

To restore to an upright position

Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; - so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.

Vertical; erect

A style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right

In its proper orientation; not overturned.

A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative

Greater in height than breadth.

A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

Characterized by slanting characters;

(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Of or relating to the Italic languages;

In or into an upright position.

Any vertical part of a structure.

(sports) A goal post.

(slang) A leg

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

(informal) An upright piano.

(informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.

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

In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

Conformable to moral rectitude.

Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.

The vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly between the uprights.

A vertical structural member as a post or stake;

A piano with a vertical sounding board

In a vertical position; not sloping;

Of moral excellence;

Erect in posture;

Maintaining an erect position;

Upright in position or posture;