Upstream is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UPSTREAM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to stream up
• Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• stream upwards
ADVERB:
• moving or situated in the opposite direction from that in which a stream or river flows; nearer to the source
• situated in or towards the part of a sequence of genetic material where transcription takes place earlier than at a given point.
• at a stage in the process of gas or oil extraction and production before the raw material is ready for refining.
• toward the source or against the current
ADJECTIVE:
• in or towards the higher part of a stream
• in the direction against a stream\'s current
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• toward the source of a stream

Words related to UPSTREAM

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Words that contain UPSTREAM

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How to use UPSTREAM in a sentence

• They began to travel up-stream, and before night came, their feet were sore from hot ash and burning embers.
• Our course being up-stream, we were obliged to work much harder than before, and had frequent use for a pole.
• The two canoes were still abreast when they recovered from the turn and started back upstream.
• The boys in the water swam noiselessly upstream to the roots of the elm-tree, where he saw them looking at his disgrace.
• Other men immediately began to lay the heavy planks side by side, perpendicular to and on the up-stream side of the horses.
• In the meantime, the voyagers resumed their journey and were making quite rapid progress up-stream.
• About three-fourths of a mile upstream I found that it united with the one we had just crossed, as I feared it would.
• I overtook a man and two boys who were hauling and pushing a boat up-stream.
• The last animal had disappeared when chance turned his eyes upstream and close in to shore.
• On the 13th we broke camp, loaded ourselves and all our belongings on the launch and the house- boat, and started up-stream for Tapirapoan.
• Having made his investigation, he ordered the men to return to the bank he had left, and the dugout was headed up-stream accordingly.
• Long before they could get it ready the Iroquois had picked up their wounded warriors and were pulling madly up-stream once more.
• He would travel upstream and mail his letter when he found the village.
• The Automaton had undoubtedly waded up-stream to the point where he had decided to dispose of Zita.
• Disposing some of his force below the hanging rock, Locke and some others went farther upstream.
• She knew that they dared not wait another day, before starting up-stream in the launch.
• But they shot it safely until they reached its foot and there an eddy caught them and carried them back upstream in spite of all that could be done.
• The man ran a little way upstream to a point where a spit of land jutted out into the river, his companions following quickly with the pot.
• The diggings ran farther upstream and were richer than the old ones.
• She felt an impetuous desire to fall upstream, which she resisted so successfully that she promptly fell down stream.
• On looking round, however, they had found the marks of our boot heels on the frozen snow, heading up-stream, and had immediately guessed that we had gone to the old camp.
• Judging from analogy and the fact that the fifth village, Imaha, was the farthest up Arkansas river, that village name must have meant, as did the term Omaha, the upstream people.
• He rowed diagonally up-stream instead, so as to land at some distance above it.
• They crossed the bar without difficulty, and rowed their boats upstream.
• The rowboat conducting the exiles up-stream met rafts of workmen gliding down the current.
• Wait till Abe gets back and we see what he found upstream.
• One day it would go up-stream, and the next day it would come back.
• It is not surprising, either, that no one thought to look up-stream for the baby, or that they failed to consider any possible fate for him save drowning.
• Olof swam upstream, his eyes fixed on the heap of clothing, and a faint smile on his lips.
• We are to expect them to cross our course on a raft, floating in with the current of the Peace as we make our way upstream.
• Before he had proceeded very far up-stream he found the current too strong to be overcome without a ruinous consumption of coals.
• Rowing now with the most powerful of strokes, Lane kept the bow of the boat upstream and a little to the right.
• At Meredosia, the nearest landing on the river, he waited a week for the boat upstream.
• But when there chanced to be a strong wind blowing upstream, the boatmen would hoist sail, and joyfully make headway against the current without so much toil.

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