Upper Definition–adjective | 1. | higher, as in place, position, pitch, or in a scale: the upper stories of a house; the upper register of a singer's voice. | | 2. | superior, as in rank, dignity, or station. | | 3. | (of places) at a higher level, more northerly, or farther from the sea: the upper slopes of a mountain; upper New York State. | | 4. | (often initial capital letter ) Stratigraphy. denoting a later division of a period, system, or the like: the Upper Devonian. | –noun | 5. | the part of a shoe or boot above the sol
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e, comprising the quarter, vamp, counter, and lining. | | 7. | a gaiter made of cloth. Compare gaiter (def. 1). | | 8. | Usually, uppers, | a. | an upper dental plate. | | | 9. | Informal. the higher of two bunks or berths. | —Idiom | 10. | on one's uppers, Informal. reduced to poverty; without sufficient means: They are on their uppers but manage to hide the fact from their friends. | |
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Respiratory Definition–adjective | pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease. | |
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Infection Definition–noun | 1. | an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected. | | 2. | an infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing. | | 3. | an infecting agency or influence. | | 4. | an infectious disease: Is this infection very dangerous? | | 5. | the condition of suffering an infection. | | 6. | corruption of another's opinions, beliefs, moral principles, etc.; moral contamination. | | 7. | an influence or impulse passing from one to another and affecting feeling or action. | | 8. | Grammar. (in Celtic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel; umlaut. | |
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