Upward

Definition: Upward

Upward

Adjective

1. Directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen".

2. Extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish".

Adverb

1. Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile".

2. To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "upward" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Upward

Crosswords: Upward

We must move forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

And so, onward and upward the tired trekkers trudged on feverished footsies on the perilous paths (George of the Jungle; writing credit: Jay Ward; Dana Olsen)

Look upward, and share the wonders I have seen (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Vision that looks inward becomes duty. Vision that looks outward becomes aspiration. Vision that looks upward becomes faith. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A New Negro for a New Century: An Accurate and Up-To-Date Record of the Upward Struggles of the Negro Race (reference)

• Breaking the Barrier to Upward Communication: Strategies and Skills for Employees, Managers, and Hr Specialists (reference)

• Sparks Fly Upward (reference)

• The Upward Curve of Earth and Heavens (Story Line Press First Book Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Upward (reference)

• Upward & Onward (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Throttling Upward. Credit: NASA.

Live oaks stretch outward and upward. View from Cabretta campground. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Recovering an upward looking RDI acoustic doppler current profiler deployed along the Ross Ice Shelf. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Deploying an upward looking RDI acoustic doppler current profiler on a mooring along the Ross Ice Shelf in the Ross Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Gazing upward in a giant kelp forest. Credit: Sanctuaries.

Plastic bags are meant to discourage boobies from landing on the masthead. Apparently they don't work. Diners on deck below have to minimize upward looks upward and maximize cover over food. On the NOAA Ship McARTHUR during STAR 2000 operations in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Caption: Portrait of Edison Looking Upward; May 13, 1919; {14.915/64} (jpg).

Then the cold fingers left his wrist, and crept slowly upward toward his throat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Burning of the steamer Stonewall, on the Mississippi River, October 28th, during which upward of two hundred lives were lost. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Line of cadets in formation with rifles trained upward. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She thrust forth her head from the lattice, and looked anxiously upward.

And for ages men had gazed upward as he was gazing at birds in flight

His eyes were open, staring upward, and his cheeks were flushed

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Looks upward or turns toward a new sound. (references)

A crease just above the tip of the nose from constant upward nose wiping (allergic salute). (references)

Grasp the tick as close to the skin surface as possible and pull upward with steady, even pressure. (references)

Business

All these factors will keep the demand for water heaters on an upward trend. (references)

This upward trend will continue in 2001, as a 3.2 percent increase to 163,400 units is forecasted. (references)

Government officials have noted a rise in Protestant worshipers in the past year, but have not revised statistics to reflect this upward trend. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

There is a bill before Parliament to revise the age upward to 15 years. (references)

Netherlands

Total fish consumption continues to trend upward in the Netherlands, particularly salmon consumption. (references)

Georgia

At the same time, electricity prices are being liberalized and allowed to drift upward to reflect market rates. (references)

Political Economy

PARAGUAY

Since that time, however, increasingly large public deficits have nudged public debt back upward. (references)

COSTA RICA

The majority of the debt is financed in domestic capital markets, placing upward pressure on interest rates. (references)

SAUDI ARABIA

It is estimated that from 25 to upward of 50 percent of all major brand consumer goods sold in Saudi Arabia are illegal copies. (references)

Trade

Poland

The tariff rate quota for poultry meat, which will be adjusted upward annually as Poland's domestic output expands, is estimated at 47,736 for 2001. The above quota tariff is presently set at 60%, which is one half the maximum rate that Poland may apply under the Agreement. (references)

Travel

Eq. Guinea

Rates have increased considerably since 1991 and are trending upward, particularly in the two main cities. (references)

Worker Rights

Nigeria

The ILO estimates that upward of 12 million children between the ages of 10 and 14 (25 percent of all children) are employed in some capacity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "upward": and upward ♦ face upward ♦ from childhood upward ♦ look upward ♦ movement upward ♦ upward closure ♦ upward glance ♦ upward mobility ♦ upward movement ♦ upward of ♦ upward pressure ♦ upward slope ♦ upward trend ♦ upward zoom. Additional references.

Beginning with "upward": upward-curving, upward-facing, upward-flow, upward-moving, upward-opening, upward-plunging, upward-rushing, upward-sloping, upward-spiralling, upward-striving, upward-tilted, upward-towards, upward-travelling, upward-turning.

Ending with "upward": climber-upward.

Albanian

rritës (Crescent, grower, progressive), përpjetë (jerk, uphill, upwards), ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, viscous), lart (above, aloft, high, overhead, up, upstairs, upwards). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقريبا (about, all but, almost, most, near, nearly, quasi, roughly, somewhere, thereabouts, upwards, well nigh), ‏إلى فوق (up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отиващ нагоре, насочен нагоре, нанагорен (rising, up, uphill), нанагоре (uphill, upwards), по-нагоре (up, upstairs, upwards). (various references)

Chinese 

向上地 (up, upwards), 向上 (upturn, upturned, upwards). (various references)

Czech

vzhùru (aloft, astir, up, upwards), vzestupný (buoyant), více (more, upwards), nahoru (above, up, uphill, upstairs, upwards), nahoře (above, aloft, on high, overhead, up, upstairs, upwards). (various references)

Danish

upward drilling (pitting, upward drilling), opdrift (buoyance, buoyancy, floatability, lift, lift component, uplift, uplift pressure, upward pressure), Clifford-indloeb (upward flow), hvis vaekstretningen af de frie blaerer i en smelte er rettet opad,kan det bemaerkes,at blaererne ikke udvikler sig med en egen vaekstretning,men at de antager stoerkningsfrontens bevaegelsesretning (it can be seen that if decantation of free bubbles in a liquid takes place in an upward direction, the blowholes do not develop according to a characteristic tropism but adopt the direction of advance of the solidification front), koersel paa stigning (upward journey, upward run), naar riggen loefter sig,maa loeftecylindrene aktiveres for at udstraekke borestrengskompensatoren og saaledes presse luft fra cylindrene ind i trykluftbeholderne (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels), opadgående tilbøjelighed (upward bias), opadgaaende tendens i priserne (increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), opadrettet skelen (upward squint), /turbo-stoevfaelder eri drift ved hver opadgaaende og/en/ nedadgaaende arbejdsgang af kuludvindingsmaskinen (the turbo dust trap operates during the operational upward or downward run of the winning machine), opadrettet vandtryk i fundamentsflader (uplift, uplift pressure, upward pressure), zoome ud (backward zoom, upward zoom), opjustering (upward revision), opstigning af ozon (upward ozone transfer, upward transfer), prisopsving (increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), prisstigningstendens (tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), strabismus sursumvergens (hypertropia, upward squint, vertical strabismus), taglod (roof plummet, upward sighting plummet), opadrettet træk (upward drag). (various references)

Dutch

upward drilling (pitting, upward drilling), opwaartse waterdruk (uplift, uplift pressure, upward pressure), bij de opwaartse dompbeweging van het boorschip moeten de steuncilinders een slag maken om de boorseriecompensator uit te schuiven en aldus lucht uit de cilinders in de drukvaten te comprimeren (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels), de nuttige bedrijfstijd van de centrifuge-stofvanger is gelijk aan de tijd die de winningsmachine nodig heeft voor de opwaartse en nederwaartse gang (the turbo dust trap operates during the operational upward or downward run of the winning machine), erosie door opwaartse stroming (pitting, upward drilling), hausse (boom, bull market, increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), herziening naar boven (upward revision), opdrijving (uplift, uplift pressure, upward pressure), als de afzetting van de vrije gasblazen in een smelt in opwaartse richting geschiedt,ontwikkelen de gasblazen zich niet in een bepaalde groeirichting maar volgen de richting waarin het stollingsfront voortschrijdt (it can be seen that if decantation of free bubbles in a liquid takes place in an upward direction, the blowholes do not develop according to a characteristic tropism but adopt the direction of advance of the solidification front), opwaartse ozonoverdracht (upward ozone transfer, upward transfer), vertikale instroming (upward flow), prijsopdrijving (increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), stijgend traject (upward journey, upward run), strabismus anoopsia (upward squint), strabismus sursum vergens (upward squint), terugwaartse zoom (backward zoom, upward zoom), opwaartse herziening (upward revision). (various references)

Finnish

zoomaus ulospäin (backward zoom, upward zoom), vastamäki (ascent, rise, upward slope), revalvointi (upward revaluation), revalvoida (revalue upward, upvalue), otsonin kulkeutuminen ylöspäin (upward ozone transfer, upward transfer), noususuunta (upward trend), nouseva hintakehitys (increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), noste (buoyance, buoyancy, uplift, uplift pressure, upward pressure), kohoavat hinnat (increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), kattoluoti (optical plummet for plumbing roof points, roof plummet, upward sighting plummet), hintojen kohoaminen (increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices). (various references)

French

en montant (uphill, upwards), ascensionnel, ascendant. (various references)

German

aufwärts (above, up, uphill, upwardly, upwards), empor (above, aloft, up, uphill, upwards). (various references)

Greek 

προσ τα άνω (uphill), ανοδικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ממעל (above, aloft, overhead, upon, upwards), מעלה (aloft, ascent, lifting, raising, rise, slope, up), למעלה (above, aloft, before, beyond, on top, supra, up, up ward, upwards), אל על (ad astra, aloft, up, upwards), כלפי מעלה (upper, upwards). (various references)

Hungarian

felfelé irányuló, emelkedõ (acclivity, ramp, upgrade, uphill), emelkedő (climber, grade, gradient, orient, slope). (various references)

Indonesian

menconet. (various references)

Irish

suas. (various references)

Italian

verso l'alto (uphill, upwards), in su, in salita (upgrade, uphill), in alto (aloft, high, overhead, up, upstairs), ascendente (ancestor, ascendancy, ascendant, ascendency, ascending, ascensions, assurgent, hold, influence, rising, soaring, up, upgrade). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

上 (a superior, aboard a ship or vehicle, above, after, as a matter of, as far as ... is concerned, authority, besides, best, emperor, far better, first volume, from the standpoint of, going up, government, governmental, head, high class, higher, imperial, influence of, lord, my dear, on top of, outer, over, presenting, shogun, showing, sovereign, summit, superior, superior quality, surface, the above, top, up, upon, upper, upper part, upper part of the body, upper stream). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うわ (outer, surface, top, upper). (various references)

Korean 

위쪽으로 (skyward, skywards, upwards). (various references)

Manx

yrdjaghey (advancement, appreciation, upward gradient), cleayney lajer seose (strong upward tendancy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ardupway.(various references)

Portuguese

por cima (above, over, overhead), para cima (up, uppermost, upstair), mais (else, encore, farther, further, furthermore, more, moreover, most, one more time, plus, preferably, rater, rather, some more, still, upstair, upwards, yet), em diante (forth, on), ascensional (ascensional), ascendente (ascendant, escalating, rising, up), além (above, after-life, beyond, further, further on, over there, past, straight past, there, yet, yon, yonder), adiante (ahead, fore, foreward, forth, forward, in front, on), acima (above, on top, over, overhead, top, up, upstairs). (various references)

Romanian

orientat în sus, ascendent (ancestor, ascendancy, ascending, climbing), îndreptat în sus, în sus (aloft, on high, up, uphill, upwards). (various references)

Russian 

вверх (endways, endwise, up, upstair, upwardly, upwards). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

više (above, longer, more, over, plus, rather, several), nagore (up, upwards, worse), koji se kreće nagore, iznad (above, beyond, over, up above). (various references)

Spanish

hacia arriba (up, upwards). (various references)

Swedish

uppåt (above, in high spirits, up, up to, uphill, upon, upwardly, upwards). (various references)

Turkish

yukarıya (aloft, overhead, up, uphill, upwards), yukarı (high, up, upwards), itibaren (as from, from, upwards), daha fazla (anymore, further, more, upward of, upwards, upwards of). (various references)

Ukrainian

угору (skyward, skywards, up, upgrade, uppermost, upwards), спрямований угору, більше (a sight more, better, more, o'er, over, upwards). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lên (ascensional, rise, risen, upwards), hướng lên (upwards), đi lên (upwards). (various references)

susum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "upward": upwardly, upwardness, upwardnesses, upwards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Upward" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Durward, Kuperard, Pupwrf, unward. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: purda.

-2 letters: draw, dura, pard, prau, ward, warp, waur, wrap.

-3 letters: dap, daw, dup, pad, par, paw, pud, pur, rad, rap, raw, urd, wad, wap, war, wud.

-4 letters: ad, ar, aw, pa, up.

+1 letter: upwards.

+2 letters: unwarped, upwardly.

+3 letters: unwrapped.

+4 letters: upwardness, wraparound.

+5 letters: wraparounds.