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UPWARD
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extending or moving toward a higher place
Example:
a general upward movement of fish
Synonyms:
up; upward
Classified under:
Similar:
ascending (moving or going or growing upward)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Directed up
Example:
an upward stroke of the pen
Classified under:
Similar:
up (being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
Example:
upwardly mobile
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Antonym:
downward (spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position)
Sense 2
Meaning:
To a later time
Example:
from childhood upward
Synonyms:
up; upward; upwards
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Context examples:
"Good-bye!" shouted everyone, and all eyes were turned upward to where the Wizard was riding in the basket, rising every moment farther and farther into the sky.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Vertical strabismus in which there is permanent upward deviation of the visual axis of one eye.
(Hypertropia, NCI Thesaurus)
A reflex characterized by upward movement of the great toe and an outward movement of the rest of the toes, when the sole of the foot is stroked.
(Babinski Sign, NCI Thesaurus)
A muscle originating from the cricoid arch on the anterior surface in which the posterior section runs outward to the thyroid's inferior horn and the anterior section runs upward to the thyroid's ala.
(Cricothyroid Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)
The heavier salts would thus fall downward, and the lighter ice, or "snow," would float upward.
(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)
He was silent after I had uttered the last sentence, and I presently risked an upward glance at his countenance.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Topline slopes upward from the withers to the loin.
(Old English Sheepdog, NCI Thesaurus)
Epidermal cells which synthesize keratin and undergo characteristic changes as they move upward from the basal layers of the epidermis to the cornified (horny) layer of the skin.
(Keratinocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
Its lower jaw extends beyond its upper one, curving upward.
(Boxer, NCI Thesaurus)
With Alaska's warming climate, forests are moving upward to higher elevations and northward to higher latitudes.
(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)
