Word Meanings - UPSTREAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
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- HIGHER-UP
A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. - TOWARD; TOWARDS
1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - HIGHERING
Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. - TOWARDS
See TOWARD - TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward. - STREAMLET
A small stream; a rivulet; a rill. - STREAM WHEEL
A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel. - STREAM CLOCK
An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel. - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - STREAM LINE
The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like. - STREAMLINE
Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. - TOWARDLY
See DRYDEN - TOWARDLINESS
The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh. - STREAMINESS
The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor. - CURRENTNESS
1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. 2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. When currentness with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden. - STREAMY
1. Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior. 2. Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope. - CURRENT
of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. - STREAM
stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str, Dan. & Sw. ström, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. sru. *174. Cf. Catarrh, 1. A current water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as - TOWARD
1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - JAPAN CURRENT
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion - PHASING CURRENT
The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period. - ALTERNATING CURRENT
A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow. - PERCURRENT
Running through the entire length. - UPSTREAM
Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current. - SNEAK CURRENT
A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out. - OSCILLATING CURRENT
A current alternating in direction. - DISTREAM
To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone. - NONRECURRENT
Not recurring. - THERMOCURRENT
A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat. - FOUCAULT CURRENT
An eddy current.