Italic vs. Upright — What's the Difference?

Relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.

Being in a vertical position or direction

The Italic group of languages.

Erect in posture or carriage

Of or relating to ancient Italy or its peoples or cultures.

Adhering strictly to moral principles; righteous.

Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.

Designed with the pedals below the seat to allow an erect posture rather than a reclining one

Italic Of or being a style of printing type patterned on a Renaissance script with the letters slanting to the right

Vertically

The Italic branch of Indo-European.

A perpendicular position; verticality.

Often italics Italic print or typeface.

Something, such as a goalpost, that stands upright.

Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.

An upright piano.

Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.

An upright bicycle.

(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.

To restore to an upright position

An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.

Vertical; erect

Relating to Italy or to its people.

In its proper orientation; not overturned.

Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; - so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.

Greater in height than breadth.

A style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right

(figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative

(of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right

In or into an upright position.

Characterized by slanting characters;

Any vertical part of a structure.

Of or relating to the Italic languages;

(sports) A goal post.

(slang) A leg

A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

(informal) An upright piano.

(informal) An upright arcade game cabinet.

(transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

Conformable to moral rectitude.

Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.

The vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly between the uprights.

A vertical structural member as a post or stake;

A piano with a vertical sounding board

In a vertical position; not sloping;

Of moral excellence;

Erect in posture;

Maintaining an erect position;

Upright in position or posture;