Upward

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Upward \Up"ward\, n.
     The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
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           From the extremest upward of thy head.   --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See
     {Up-}, and {-wards}.]
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     1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher
        place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed
        to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. --I. Watts.
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              Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
              upward, we speak and prevail.         --Hooker.
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     2. In the upper parts; above.
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              Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
              And down ward fish.                   --Milton.
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     3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
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              From twenty years old and upward.     --Num. i. 3.
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     {Upward of}, or {Upwards of}, more than; above.
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              I have been your wife in this obedience
              Upward of twenty years.               --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Upward \Up"ward\, a. [AS. upweard. See {Up}, and {-ward}.]
     Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with
     upward course.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  upward
       adj 1: directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke
              of the pen"
       2: extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up
          staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: {up(a)},
           {upward(a)}]
       adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher
              position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the
              fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards";
              "upwardly mobile" [syn: {up}, {upwards}, {upwardly}]
              [ant: {down}, {down}, {down}, {down}]
       2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
          childhood upward" [syn: {up}, {upwards}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "upward":
     above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, anabatic, ascendant,
     ascending, ascensional, ascensive, axial, back, back-flowing,
     backward, climbing, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting,
     flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, heavenward,
     high, high up, in the air, in the ascendant, in the clouds,
     leaping, mounting, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe,
     over, overhead, passing, plunging, progressive, rampant, rearing,
     reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary,
     rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, saltatory, scandent,
     scansorial, sideward, sinking, skyrocketing, skyward, soaring,
     spiraling, springing, straight up, streaming, tiptoe,
     to the zenith, up, up attic, up north, up steps, up-trending,
     upalong, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward,
     uplong, uprising, upsloping, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward,
     uptown, upwards, upwith