Associations to the word «Upstream»
Noun
- Spawn
- Boat
- Mississippi
- Susquehanna
- Headwater
- Embankment
- Silt
- Modem
- Trout
- Shallow
- Runoff
- Bandwidth
- Sturgeon
- Portage
- Cataract
- Irrigation
- Regulator
- Brook
- Crossing
- Levee
- Severn
- Overflow
- Sewage
- Swim
- Phosphorylation
- Cascade
- Flooding
- Steamboat
- Chute
- Signaling
- Waterway
- Reclamation
- Nozzle
- Bowman
- Stretch
- Roaring
- Pont
- Cleavage
- Potomac
- Activation
- Petroleum
- Upper
- Moselle
- Joaquin
- Wadi
- Raft
- Primer
- Locus
- Quay
- Canoe
- Junction
- Aqueduct
- Rivers
- Paddle
- Gravel
- Yellowstone
- Deletion
- Mach
- Router
- Ethernet
- Liter
- Rowing
- Regatta
- Eel
- Migration
- Refining
- Wetland
- Ford
- Pathway
- Bend
- Powerhouse
Adjective
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.