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# upside

noun (the upside, upsides); in the phrase "upside down" (adverb, adjective)

«upside» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. "Upside down" means with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#m1)
2. "Upside down" also means in a big mess: "The room was turned upside down." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#m2)
3. The upside is the good side of something that is mostly bad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#m3)

### In the lessons

In maths, turning a shape or number upside down is a rotation of half a turn; 6 upside down looks like 9. In science, a lens can make an upside-down image. In everyday life, "the upside" is the good part. Phrases: upside down, turn upside down, the upside is.

### Examples

- Bats sleep upside down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#x1)
- You're holding the map upside down! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#x2)
- The burglar turned the house upside down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#x3)
- A 6 upside down looks like a 9. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#x4)
- The upside of rain is that the garden gets watered. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#x5)
- Flip the pancake upside down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#x6)
- He turned it upside down, but nothing came out, which surprised him very much. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/#x7)

### Note

"Upside" is rarely used alone except as "the upside" (the good side); the opposite is "the downside". "Upside down" (also written "upside-down" before a noun: an upside-down cake). In maths, upside down is a half-turn (180 degrees) rotation, which is not the same as a mirror reflection.

## In Jewish tradition

In these books it is part of "turning upside down", a picture of total destruction and emptying out.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah and Kings use it of God's judgment, as when a dish is wiped and turned over. Tradition reads it as warning that Jerusalem and the earth can be undone by God for their sins.

### Examples

- Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. (Prophets ISA.24.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x1)
- And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. (Prophets 2KI.21.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x2)

### Note

"Upside" is rarely used alone except as "the upside" (the good side); the opposite is "the downside". "Upside down" (also written "upside-down" before a noun: an upside-down cake). In maths, upside down is a half-turn (180 degrees) rotation, which is not the same as a mirror reflection.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «upside» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upside/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«upside» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/upside.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «upside» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«upside» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/upside.html) on Mova free.