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Definition: Upstream |
UpstreamAdjective1. In the direction against a stream's current. Adverb1. Toward the source or against the current. 2. Against the current; "he swam upstream". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "upstream" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Computing | Upstream adj. [common] Towards the original author(s) or maintainer(s) of a project. Used in connection with software that is distributed both in its original source form and in derived, adapted versions through a distribution (like the Debian version of Linux or one of the BSD ports) that has component maintainers for each of their parts. When a component maintainer receives a bug report or patch, he may choose to retain the patch as a porting tweak to the distribution's derivative of the project, or to pass it upstream to the project's maintainer. The antonym `downstream' is rare. Source: Jargon File. |
Building & Civil Engineering | The opposite direction from the direction of streamflow; upper parts of a basin. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Pertaining to locations on the tape longitudinally displaced from a given reference point in the opposite direction to the tape motion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | A term used in the petroleum industry referring tothe exploration and production side of the business. This includes pipelines but production before reaching the refinery. (references) |
Geography | In the direction opposite to the current in a stream or river. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Attività di "upstream", cioè di esplorazione ed estrazione del petrolio e degli altri idrocarburi. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | The direction along the roadway from which the vehicle flow under consideration has come. (Highway Capacity Manual, 65, p. 19). Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | Toward the source of the flow, or located in the area from which the flow is coming. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Upstream, or the speed at which data can be transferred from the client to the server (uploading), differs greatly from downstream not only in theory and usage, but also in that upstream speeds are usually at a premium. Whereas downstream is important to the average home user for purposes of downloading content, uploads are used mainly for web server applications and similar processes where the sending of data is critical. ADSL and Cable modems are asynchronous, thereby rendering the upstream speed to be much lower than that of its downstream. Synchronous connections such as SDSL and T1, however, offer identical upstream and downstream speeds.See also: downstream
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Upstream."
Synonym: UpstreamSynonym: upriver (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: downstream (adj), downriver (adv). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | It's swimming upstream against the bourbon (M*A*S*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart) | |
Clever | It is difficult to "go with the flow" when you are swimming upstream. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Upstream (1927) Way Upstream (1987) | |
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 | Andy Allen measuring distance from mark on tide staff to location on pier top. Longview is close to the end of tidal influence in the Columbia River, being 66 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | An aerial view of the Argilla Road salt marsh, looking upstream prior to restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | View upstream from Spring Creek Debris Dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Before restoration, looking upstream from Roy's Dam during a low-flow season. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A close-up looking directly upstream at the dam which clearly shows the low flow and large drop that are impediments to fish passage upstream. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Looking upstream at the completed pools. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | At the sediment sampling site upstream of the Billington Street dam. dam removal site for a documentary the school is producing about the restoration work. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | An upstream small dam, terraces, buffer strips, grass plantings and other conservation measures are part of a project designed to improve the quality of water entering Union Grove Lake in Tama County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Small waterfalls called headcuts gouge stream channels ever deeper as they move upstream. The variety and vigor of the insects that biologist Sam Testa collects will reflect the level of environmental harshness or pollution in this stream. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Mill Creek, upstream. Credit: J. Brende. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "River Rocks" by William Alatalo Commentary: "Upstream view of a river in Massachusetts." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | See Introduction: passing south of the island of Alsen and following the median line of Flensburg Fjord, leaving the fjord about 6 kilometres north of Flensburg and following the course of the stream flowing past Kupfermuhle upstream to a point north of Niehuus, passing north of Pattburg and Ellund and south of Froslee to meet the eastern boundary of the Kreis of Tondern at its junction with the boundary between the old jurisdiction of Slogs and Kjaer (Slogs, Herred, and Kaer Herred), following the latter boundary to where it meets the Scheidebek, following the course of the Scheidebek (AIte Au), Suder Au, and Wied Au downstream successively to the point where the latter bends northwards about 1,500 metres west of Ruttebull thence, in a west-north-westerly direction to meet the North Sea north of SieItoft, thence, passing north of the island of Sylt, the vote above provided for shall be taken within a period not exceeding three weeks after the evacuation of the country by the German troops and authorities. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | PETROM is the National Oil Company, active in both downstream and upstream businesses. (references) | |
Additional upstream work could entail investment as high as US$1.2 billion, and additional T&D expansion, US$200-US$400 million. (references) | ||
However, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has decided against lifting the investment ban on upstream petrochemical projects in mainland China for the time being. (references) | ||
Economic History | Qatar | Upstream and downstream operations are already in progress. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | SABIC's investments are concentrated in the upstream sector. (references) | |
Venezuela | PDVSA also plans to promote upstream and downstream projects under the new law. (references) | |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | Control by the two MSOs of upstream program distribution, for example, has made it difficult for U.S. providers of popular programming to negotiate reasonable fees for their programs. (references) |
OMAN | Financing on the downstream plant is on a limited recourse basis, with upstream facilities and a 360-km pipeline financed through the corporate developers, principally Royal Dutch Shell. (references) | |
Trade | Qatar | Because it is beyond the capacity of the local private banking system to finance oil and gas related upstream and downstream mega projects, state-owned corporations and other corporations in which the State is a major shareholder, have resorted to foreign banking houses for the implementation of major projects in the oil and natural gas field. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Upstream" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 67.44% of the time. "Upstream" is used about 301 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 67.44% | 203 | 21,393 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 32.56% | 98 | 33,072 |
| Total | 100.00% | 301 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "upstream": swim upstream ♦ upstream neighbour address ♦ work upstream. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "upstream": upstream-downstream, upstream-forever. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
upstream | 45 | piaget upstream | 3 |
guaranties upstream | 15 | charlotte upstream | 3 |
swimming upstream | 9 | software upstream | 3 |
test upstream | 9 | downstream logistics upstream | 2 |
speed test upstream | 8 | upstream oil and gas | 2 |
magazine upstream | 7 | downstream upstream | 2 |
restaurant upstream | 6 | academy upstream | 2 |
bandwidth test upstream | 6 | games.net upstream | 2 |
upstream brewing company | 5 | movie swimming upstream | 2 |
brewery upstream | 4 | omaha upstream | 2 |
salmon swimming upstream | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "upstream"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në rrjedhën e sipërme, i rrjedhës së sipërme, ai që lundron kundër rrymës. (various references) | |
Arabic | نحو أعلى النهر, ضد التيار (riptide). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | срещу течението, който се движи срещу течението, нагоре по течението. (various references) | |
Chinese | 向上游. (various references) | |
Czech | proti proudu (against current, up stream). (various references) | |
Danish | opstroems, opad flod (up the river), mod båndbevægelsen, leverandørindustri (supplier industry). (various references) | |
Dutch | stroomopwaarts (upstream infinite), bovenstrooms, bergwaarts (up the river). (various references) | |
Farsi | مخالف جریان رودخانه , نزدیک به سرچشمه , بالای رودخانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | ylävirta, vastavirtaan (against the current), vastasuuntaan, liikenteen ylävirta, jokea ylös (downstream). (various references) | |
French | vers l'amont (up the river), partie en amont, montant (uphill, upright), industrie fournisseuse, industrie d'amont, en l'amont, en amont, contre le courant, amont (upriver), à l'amont. (various references) | |
German | flussaufwärts (downstream), stromaufwärts (upriver). (various references) | |
Greek | έναντι του ρεύματοσ, στα ανάντη του ποταμού (up the river), προσφέρουσα βιομηχανία (supplier industry), εφοδιάζουσα βιομηχανία (supplier industry), ανάντη (up the river), αντίθετα στο ρεύμα, αντίθετα προς τη φορά της κίνησης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | במעלה הזרם, נגד הזרם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízfolyáson felfelé, szűkítés előtti, folyás ellen, felvíz-oldali, felvízi, ár ellen (against the current, agaisnt the stream, up-river). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mudik (inland (away from the sea), upcountry), ke hulu. (various references) | |
Italian | a monte. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 逆上る (to go back, to go upstream, to make retroactive), 遡行 (going upstream), 遡る (to go back, to go upstream, to make retroactive), 遡上 (going upstream, retroact, retrospect), 溯る (to go back, to go upstream, to make retroactive), 上航 (going upstream). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そこう (behavior, behaviour, crude ore, crude steel, going upstream), そじょう (brief, complaint, going upstream, on the chopping board, petition, retroact, retrospect), さかのぼる (to go back, to go upstream, to make retroactive), じょうこう (article, clause, getting on and off, going upstream, intimacy, retired emperor, sexual intercourse, stipulations, upturn). (various references) | |
Korean | 상류로. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamupstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rio acima, parte a montante, montante (flux, sum, total, value), a montante (up the river). (various references) | |
Romanian | urca împotriva curentului (work upstream). (various references) | |
Russian | вверх по течению. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzvodno, uzvodan. (various references) | |
Spanish | río arriba, parte pasada, industria abastecedora (supplier industry), aguas arriba (headwater). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppströms. (various references) | |
Turkish | suyun kaynağına doğru (upriver), nehrin yukarısındaki (upriver), kaynağa yakın (upriver), akıntıya karşı (up stream, upriver). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | угору за течією, проти течії. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngược dòng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "upstream" (pronounced u"pstrē"m) |
| 5 | -s t r ē" m | extreme, stream. |
| 3 | -r ē" m | bream, ream, cream, creme, dream, scream, supreme. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tempuras. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: matures, pasture, restamp, stamper, strumae, stumper, sumpter, tampers, tempura, uprates, upstare, uptears. | |
-2 letters: amuser, armets, erupts, estrum, master, maters, matres, mature, meatus, muster, mutase, pareus, paster, paters, pauser, prates, purest, ramets, remaps, repast, septum, stream, struma, tamers, tamper, tapers, taupes, tramps, trapes, trumps, uprate, uptear, urates. | |
-3 letters: amuse, apers, apres, apter, armet, arums. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: mousetrap, septarium. | |
+2 letters: metacarpus, mousetraps, prematures, psalterium, spermatium, subprimate, supersmart, trapeziums. | |
+3 letters: champertous, intercampus, lepromatous, pentamerous, petrolatums, promulgates, subprimates, supermarket, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, ultrasimple. | |
+4 letters: macropterous, mousetrapped, perambulates, permutations, planetariums, portmanteaus, premenstrual, proctodaeums, reassumption, somatopleure, subtemperate, supermarkets, superstardom, superstratum, supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists, temperatures. | |
+5 letters: mousetrapping, multispectral, paramountcies, perambulators, preformulates, prematureness, prematurities, reassumptions, somatopleures, subdepartment, superdiplomat, superhumanity, supermajority, supermilitant, superromantic, superstardoms, superstratums, supplementary, underpayments, unimportances. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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