UPPER SURFACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upper surface mean? 

• UPPER SURFACE (noun)
  The noun UPPER SURFACE has 1 sense:

1. the side that is uppermost

  Familiarity information: UPPER SURFACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPER SURFACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The side that is uppermost

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("upper surface" is a kind of...):

side (an extended outer surface of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upper surface"):

ceiling (the overhead upper surface of a covered space)

 Context examples 

Pertaining to the back or upper surface of the body.

(Dorsal, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Pertaining to the back or upper surface of the body; opposite of ventral.

(Dorsal, NCI Thesaurus)

The lingual or upper surface of the epiglottis.

(Anterior Surface of the Epiglottis, NCI Thesaurus)

The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred yards distant from the centre.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He carefully scrutinised with his lens the talc shield which covered the top of the chimney and scraped off some ashes which adhered to its upper surface, putting some of them into an envelope, which he placed in his pocketbook.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the centre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called flandona gagnole, or the astronomer’s cave, situated at the depth of a hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)