upstream
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3.5
- adverb
- /ˌʌpˈstriːm/
:
río arriba
- Cedar Bridge sat fifty yards upstream from and parallel to the new road and its concrete bridge.
- swim upstream
- fish migrate upstream
- migrate upstream
You actually start to roll upstream.
- You actually start to roll upstream.
- But that means understanding all of these dynamics well so you don't get too far down the toxic river that you can't paddle upstream again and take yourself back.
- So the the salmon, they, they swim upstream to spawn, you know, to reproduce.
- Let's see the X axis and which oscillates as it goes downstream or upstream.
- You know, I think prevention should always swim upstream, right?
- When you short sell, it's a little bit like swimming upstream.
- Short selling is thus a bit like swimming upstream.
- Now, what we are allowed to do is to recruit locals that are on the fringe of narcotics and teach them how to swim upstream.
Examples
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The worst of the rains fell on a narrow band just upstream from us.
Fiction book (1995) -
An alternative is to direct policies further upstream in the pollution process.
Academic text (2003) -
But in general, cities have been built in a way without much thought to the management of land upstream to maintain water quality and supply.
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Have them glass this river, upstream and down.
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Why do salmon swim back upstream where it all began?
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Reaching the river, he turned upstream, toward Harvard and the Charles Hotel.
Fiction book (1995) -
However, Egypt is being increasingly challenged as the water needs of other countries upstream are growing.
Academic text (2008) -
Where the canyon narrowed, the train rounded a slight curve and headed upstream into the sunlight.
Fiction book (1990) -
The salmon always swims upstream to the place of its birth to spawn and then die there.
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If we can get to it, we just follow it upstream back to the construction site.
Synonyms
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4.1
Toward the place where a river starts and against the water flow
Being near the start of a river or stream
Toward the source of a river, pipe, or system
Antonyms
How Upstream
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Upstream is made of up ('toward the source') and stream ('a river'). So to go upstream is to move against the current, toward where the river begins.