[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/upside.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / upside [← U](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/U/) # upside «upside» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (the upside, upsides); in the phrase "upside down" (adverb, adjective) ### meaning for a pupil 1) "Upside down" means with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#m1) 2) "Upside down" also means in a big mess: "The room was turned upside down." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#m2) 3) The upside is the good side of something that is mostly bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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 - 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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x2) - Bats sleep upside down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x3) - You're holding the map upside down! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x4) - The burglar turned the house upside down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x5) - A 6 upside down looks like a 9. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x6) - The upside of rain is that the garden gets watered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x7) - Flip the pancake upside down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x8) - He turned it upside down, but nothing came out, which surprised him very much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/#x9) ### 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 the corpora - [A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering tiny food through comb-like edges of its bill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/11/) - [Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/6/) - [Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/19/) - [A bat sleeps all day upside down without effort, because its toes lock shut on their own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/6/) - [Madagascar had giant lemurs, some as heavy as a grown man or heavier, and some hung upside down in trees like sloths.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/13/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «upside» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/upside/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.