Concept cluster: The Elements > Upward Movement or Direction
adv
In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
adv
At, to, or in the air or sky.
adj
Upward in direction or proclivity.
adj
Sloping or leading upwards.
n
The smaller of two channels in a river that diverge to form an island.
adj
Swept back.
n
The water held back by a dam or other obstruction
n
(figuratively) Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
v
(idiomatic) Of a vessel, to touch the bottom of a water body.
n
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
adj
A position down along a gradient from a starting position.
adv
Down a slope.
adv
down a slope
adv
Toward the lower part of a street.
adj
Alternative form of down-ticket [Synonym of down-ballot]
adv
In the lower part of a well.
adj
Soaring.
adj
(obsolete) Characterising a wind blowing on the line of one's travel; favourable.
v
(intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
v
To travel to a higher elevation, especially to a rural region on vacation.
adv
In or into operation or production.
adj
(masonry) Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
adj
Across a sea; to or in an area across a sea.
adv
(now chiefly Canada, US) Over the top.
adj
By or across water, especially of travel.
adj
(aviation) Flying high enough to avoid storms and turbulence.
n
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
n
(forestry) The time allowed to elapse between successive occurrences of a stand of trees being logged.
v
To be caused or derived; to originate.
n
Alternative form of swansdown [The down of a swan.]
n
A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
n
(by extension) A feeling that runs contrary to one's normal one.
adj
Facing upwards.
adj
Describing a sample taken from further up a core.
n
An upward curve.
adv
(geology) upwards along a dip
adv
Upwards along the face
adj
(chemistry) Describing an NMR resonance at a lower frequency to that of a reference signal
n
Any force that acts upwards.
adj
(physics, seismology, of a wave) Trending positive.
adj
(welding) Starting from the bottom and working upwards
adv
Up a slope, towards higher ground.
n
A person traveling uphill.
adv
(obsolete) Heading uphill.
adv
Up a ladder.
adv
Higher up a mountain.
adv
(geology) Towards the higher part of a section.
adj
sloping upwards
n
(construction, plumbing) A section of a roof covering or flashing which turns up against a vertical surface.
adv
(US) To the northern section of a state.
adv
Toward the higher part of a street.
n
The upward stroke of a pen, brush, piston, etc.
adj
curved or swept upwards
n
An upward thrust.
adv
Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
adv
upward
adj
In a position with the wing raised.

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