Associations to the word «Upstream»

Wiktionary

UPSTREAM, adjective. In a direction against the flow of a current or stream; upriver
UPSTREAM, adjective. (oil industry) involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling
UPSTREAM, adjective. (computing) in the direction from the client to the server
UPSTREAM, adjective. (open-source software) maintained, owned or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream
UPSTREAM, adjective. (biology) towards the leading end (5'end) of a DNA molecule
UPSTREAM, adverb. Against the current

Dictionary definition

UPSTREAM, adverb. Toward the source or against the current.
UPSTREAM, adjective. In the direction against a stream's current.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats