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upstreams

upstreams is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upstream.

upstreams is the plural of upstream.

Meaning of upstream

Verb

upstream (third-person singular simple present upstreams, present participle upstreaming, simple past and past participle upstreamed)

  1. (intransitive) To stream upward.
  2. (transitive, open-source software) To have (a software library, patch, etc.) accepted by the original developers of the related software, so that they maintain and distribute it.
    • I'd be more than happy to upstream your patch.

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Questions about upstreams

What is upstreams the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upstreams is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upstream.

Words near upstreams in the dictionary

  1. upstreamed
  2. upstreamer
  3. upstreamers
  4. upstreaming
  5. upstreamness
  6. upstreams
  7. upstreamward
  8. upstreamwards
  9. upstreet
  10. upstretched
  11. upstrike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upstreams (page history and authors); upstream (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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