UPSIDE-DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upside-down mean? 

• UPSIDE-DOWN (adjective)
  The adjective UPSIDE-DOWN has 1 sense:

1. being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed

  Familiarity information: UPSIDE-DOWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPSIDE-DOWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed

Synonyms:

inverted; upside-down

Context example:

an upside-down cake

Similar:

turned (moved around an axis or center)

 Context examples 

If his nose had been upside-down, he would have made that respectable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The upside-down, v-shaped ears are well covered with hair.

(Japanese Chin, NCI Thesaurus)

Because warmer water is more buoyant, says the study, it rises above cooler water, creating what the scientists describe as an "upside-down river" flowing underneath the layers of ice.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

In a footage, an Octopus named Heidi changes skin-color, from light to dark, while sleeping upside-down in a tank making scientists believe that they can dream.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The segment of the sleeping creature shows Heidi sleeping upside-down in a tank and in moments, her skin begins to change color —leaving marine biologist David Scheel from Alaska Pacific University to suggest that marine animal is dreaming.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)