Word Meanings - UPSTREAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

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• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• STREAM LINE
  The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
• STREAMLINE
  Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• TOWARDLINESS
  The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.
• STREAMINESS
  The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.
• CURRENTNESS
  1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. 2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. When currentness with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.
• STREAMY
  1. Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior. 2. Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope.
• CURRENT
  of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
• STREAM
  stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. sru. *174. Cf. Catarrh, 1. A current water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as
• TOWARD
  1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• DISTREAM
  To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
• NONRECURRENT
  Not recurring.
• THERMOCURRENT
  A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
• FOUCAULT CURRENT
  An eddy current.