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UPWARDS
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
Example:
upwardly mobile
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Antonym:
downwards (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
Classified under:
Context examples:
I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His eyes rolled upwards, his features writhed in agony, and with a suppressed groan he dropped on his face upon the ground.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They are two of the nearest regions in which massive stars - with masses upwards of 10 times that of the Sun - have been observed to be forming.
('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)
In these great wastes of forest, life, which abhors darkness, struggles ever upwards to the light.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Rochester had been absent upwards of a fortnight, when the post brought Mrs. Fairfax a letter.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The deepest and most prominent groove on the lateral surface of the brain beginning at the anterior perforated substance that runs back and slightly upwards.
(Fissure of Sylvius, NCI Thesaurus)
According to the research team, half of all people worldwide are affected by limits on their water supply, while daily fresh water usage to flush the planet's roughly 1 billion toilets and flush urinals is upwards of 141 billion liters; which they note is several times larger than the total rate of water consumption for the continent of Africa.
(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)
Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c. The incidence of spontaneous tumor formation includes anterior pituitary and adrenal cortex in upwards of 30% of aged rats.
(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
This means that in case you assumed that your rise upwards might have been stunted by the new moon of October 27 (something that might have crossed your mind if you work for others and are not planning to make a radical career switch), then you will be cheered by this news.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The actual meteors are usually no bigger than a grain of sand, but when they hit the Earth’s atmosphere traveling at speeds upwards of 60 kilometers per second, they burn up in a mesmerizing color show of white, orange and green hues.
(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)
