Definitions for upstream

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upstream up·stream

Spelling: [uhp-streem]

IPA: /ˈʌpˈstrim/

Upstream is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 570 anagrams from letters in upstream (aemprstu).

Definitions for upstream

adverb

1. toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.

adjective

1. directed upstream; situated upstream:
2. Commerce. of or relating to the early stages in the operations of a business or industry, as exploration and production in the oil business (opposed to downstream).
3. against or opposite to the direction of transcription, translation, or synthesis of a DNA, RNA, or protein molecule.

Origin of upstream

First recorded in 1675-85; up- + stream

Examples for upstream

upstream he caught the dim outline of some dull gray masses.

The young men and women who went there drank like upstream salmon and studied in between switching kegs at kegger parties.

upstream is right—and I must say the setting pole saved the day.

Two are within a quarter of a mile, one upstream and one downstream.

Opposite Fort Mohave and upstream from it; therefore in Nevada.

You wanted to be upstream with the artists, not downstream with the consumers.

If any craft passes you, follow it upstream until you find me.

Rob was swimming on the upstream side, one hand on the stern.

Melissa Lion is the author of two novels, Swollen and upstream, both published by Random House.

The Surge has stemmed the blood loss from the land between two rivers, but upstream from Mesopotamia, the patient still bleeds.