Italic vs. Upright

Italic vs. Upright — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Italic and Upright

Italicadjective

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

Uprightadjective

Vertical; erect.

I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.

Italicadjective

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

The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.

Uprightadjective

Greater in height than breadth.

Italicnoun

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

Uprightadjective

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

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Italicnoun

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

Uprightadjective

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

Italicnoun

a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right

Uprightadverb

in or into an upright position

Italicnoun

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

Uprightnoun

Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.

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Italicnoun

a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

Uprightnoun

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

Italicadjective

characterized by slanting characters;

italic characters

Uprightnoun

(informal) An upright piano.

Italicadjective

of or relating to the Italic languages;

ancient Italic dialects

Uprightnoun

Short for upright vacuum cleaner.

Uprightverb

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

Uprightnoun

a vertical structural member as a post or stake;

the ball sailed between the uprights

Uprightnoun

a piano with a vertical sounding board

Uprightadjective

in a vertical position; not sloping;

an upright post

Uprightadjective

of moral excellence;

a genuinely good persona just causean upright and respectable manthe life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous

Uprightadjective

erect in posture;

behind him sat old man Arthur; he was straight with something angry in his attitudestood defiantly with unbowed back

Uprightadjective

maintaining an erect position;

standing timbermany buildings were still standing

Uprightadjective

upright in position or posture;

an erect statureerect flower stalksfor a dog, an erect tail indicates aggressiona column still vertical amid the ruinshe sat bolt upright