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• The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.From the entry straiten
• Water whished along the boat as we rowed upstream.From the entry along
• I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had to swim upstream and do it herself. Now it's a mess.From the entry swim upstream
• The first test involved placing the restriction immediately upstream of the FOHE.2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.16.4.2 Full-scale engine testing (L12)”, in Report on the accident to Boeing…. From the entry rollback
• Mainstreaming calls for changes in policy as far upstream as possible.2010, Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp, editors, Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation […] , Cambridge University…. From the entry mainstreaming
• Francois River upstream from Silver Mine and downstream from the crossing of Highway 70.1935, The American Journal of Science, page 366. From the entry shutin
• In particular, the role of upstream operating regulatory mechanisms responsible for initializing the cAMP-dependent decidualisation cascade, needs to be addressed.2015 August 5, Ewa Kautz et al., “In vitro decidualisation of canine uterine stromal cells”, in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology …. From the entry decidualisation
• I believe that the upstream impoundment concept is equally applicable to the problems of flood control in almost any watershed.2000 February 15, United States Army Corps of Engineers, quoting William B. Newcomb, “Letter from Mr. William B. Newcomb to Mr. Tod D.…. From the entry river bottom
• From around the corner upstream comes a quiet birdcall: "Phweep?1986, Martha Brown, Granite Mountain Spring, page 26. From the entry phweep
• Going west from here and upstream along the Han-shui River we encounter the An-k’ang and Han-chung districts of southern Shensi.1986, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155. From the entry An-k'ang
• Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98. From the entry watermill
• Wading upstream, it was obvious I would have to cast side-handed and under-handed, with an occasional bow-and-arrow "shot."1972, Colorado Game, Fish Department, Colorado Outdoors - Volumes 21-22, page 36. From the entry side-handed
• A fern frond, knocked off the bank upstream, came down turning like a little green dragon in the clear water.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19. From the entry frond
• "Feed your face, and we'll go upstream." Bob ate rapidly.1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in The Rules of the Game. From the entry feed one's face
• The relative waterhead difference between upstream and downstream is 71.47m, smaller than the designed waterhead of the working gate of the bottom hole 87.3m.2019, Jean-Pierre Tournier, Tony Bennett, Johanne Bibeau, Sustainable and Safe Dams Around the World, page 291. From the entry waterhead
• Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian. From the entry bank
• The pipeline stands at the windward of the “City of Eternal Spring” and upstream side of the “City of Water Shortage,” Kunming.2014, Yangtze River Delta Earth First!, “Environmental Group Events in Today's China”, in Alexander Reid Ross, editor, Grabbing Back…. From the entry Anning
• Warm or tepid water systems that dilute domestic hot water from a water heater with cold water upstream from the outlet source are not recommended.2003, Roger F Jones, Martha J Boss, Dennis W Day, Biological Risk Engineering Handbook. From the entry domestic hot water
• Usually a balling operation will function very well with 2.0 feet of head in the upstream manhole to create a scouring velocity around the ball.2003, Operation and Maintenance of Wastewater Collection Systems. From the entry balling
• In each of several previously troutless streams, they placed two rainbow trout in a cage 15 m upstream from a drift-collecting net.2003, Thomas C. Grubb, The Mind of the Trout, page 87. From the entry troutless
• Its lifeline, the Tarim River, which used to skirt the northern fringe of the Taklamakan Desert, has been sucked dry by upstream agriculture.2002 July 19, “Traffic flows where river once did”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2024. From the entry Tarim
• The vortex trail will spring from the upstream edge of a flat bottomed gate, causing pressure pulsations at the bottom of the gate.2001, Jack Lewin, Hydraulic Gates and Valves, 2nd edition, Thomas Telford Publishing, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry flat bottomed
• The solution to this problem in freshwater is to produce a drought resistant life-stage adapted to passive (upstream) dispersal by anemochoria or zoochoria.1994, Henri J. Dumont, “The distribution and ecology of the fresh- and brackish-water medusae of the world”, in Hydrobiologia, volume 212…. From the entry anemochoria
• You’re dropping down on port with every catch,” he observed to the varsity eight as it sped upstream rowing at full pressure.1988 April 21, Alice Digilio, “Crew making a splash in area high schools”, in The Washington Post. From the entry on keel
• The railing at the upstream side also serves as a guide and a support for the manually operated hoist for the flashboard placement and removal.1952, Tennessee Valley Authority, Design of TVA Projects: Civil and structural design, page 301. From the entry flashboard
• Environmental authorities in Lüeyang County, Shaanxi province, discovered excessive levels of thallium in two of the Jialing River’s upstream tributaries on Jan. 20, according to a statement Monday.2021 January 27, Li You, “Northwest China Reports Thallium Pollution in Yangtze Tributary”, in Bibek Bhandari, editor, Sixth Tone…. From the entry thallium
• Pearl mullets are the only species able to survive in the salty, alkaline waters of the lake but swim upstream to lay eggs in freshwater rivers.2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian. From the entry pearl mullet
• It is possible that hypoexcitability of spinal or cortical motor neurons could be compensated for by increased drive to the corticospinal motor neuron from upstream motor regions.2016 February 10, “Cortical Mechanisms of Central Fatigue and Sense of Effort”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry hypoexcitability
• They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation.2009 March 20, Somini Sengupta, “In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise”, in New York Times. From the entry siltation
• Bromfield describes at length the many benefits provided by the District, which is operated on the concept of upstream impoundment of floodwaters and their gradual release.2000 February 15, United States Army Corps of Engineers, quoting William B. Newcomb, “Letter from Mr. William B. Newcomb to Mr. Tod D.…. From the entry river bottom
• Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck.1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan, published 2012, page 140. From the entry sternwheeler
• This method requires that pseudochannel boundaries be located in the flow reach upstream from each of the openings to simulate the actual upstream boundaries of the single-opening constriction.1958, Jacob Davidian; P.H. Carrigan, Jr.; John Shen, “Flow Through Opening in Width Constrictions”, in Surface Water Supply of the United…. From the entry pseudochannel
• The resultant amplificons (about 1.4 kb) were then ligated upstream to the pSB1C3 vector containing an RFP reporter and transformed to competent cells carrying HrpRS AND gate modules in pSB4A5.2015 June 16, Adison Wong et al., “Layering genetic circuits to build a single cell, bacterial half adder”, in BMC Biology, volume 13, →DOI. From the entry amplificons
• A dam fitted between the sixth control group and the first insected group caused the water to overfall into the lower series and thereby prevented upstream movement of infective cysts.1965, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, page 54. From the entry overfall

Meaning of upstream

1. adjective In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
2. adjective Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
3. adjective Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.

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How do you use upstream in a sentence?

Upstream is used as an adjective, adverb and verb. For example: “Input entry is upstream of input validation in the runtime process.”

What is a short sentence with upstream?

“I'd be more than happy to upstream your patch.”

What does upstream mean?

Upstream means in a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.