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Upward   /ˈəpwərd/   Listen
Upward

adjective
1.
Directed up.  "An upward stroke of the pen"
2.
Extending or moving toward a higher place.  Synonym: up.  "A general upward movement of fish"
adverb
1.
Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position.  Synonyms: up, upwardly, upwards.  "The music surged up" , "The fragments flew upwards" , "Prices soared upwards" , "Upwardly mobile"
2.
To a later time.  Synonyms: up, upwards.  "From childhood upward"






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"Upward" Quotes from Famous Books



... supporting framework permitted. The cupola floors were not all laid. If you had stood on the distributing floor, over the tops of the bins, you might have looked not only down through a score of openings between plank areas and piles of timbers, into black pits, sixteen feet square by seventy deep, but upward through a grill of girders and joists to the clear sky. Everywhere men swarmed over the work, and the buzz of the electric lights and the sounds of hundreds of hammers blended ...
— Calumet 'K' • Samuel Merwin

... not, in erthe ne in watre, rote. And therfore thei wolde, that it scholde have lasted longe. For thei trowed, that the body of Crist scholde have stonken; therfore thei made that pece, that went from the erthe upward, of cypres: for it is welle smellynge; so that the smelle of his body scholde not greve men, that wenten forby. And the overhwart pece was of palme: for in the Olde Testament, it was ordyned, that whan on overcomen, he scholde be crowned with palme: and for ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation. v. 8 - Asia, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt

... getting in its work. Great nausea and burning thirst were not due to the disease, and the crowding upward of the liver border was caused ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.

... Morville, but Mr. Shene had shown all that art could convey of his individual self, with almost one of his unearthly looks. The beautiful eyes, with somewhat of their peculiar lightsomeness, the flexible look of the lip, the upward pose of the head, the set of that lock of hair that used to wave in the wind, the animated position, 'just ready for a start,' as Charles used to call it, were recalled as far as was in the power of chalk and crayon, but so as to remind Amabel of him more ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... swim, And the world is growing dim; Thronging shadows cloud the light, Like the advent of the night,— Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapor chill— Strong the earthy odor grows— I smell the mould above ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood


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