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Meaning of upward

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  upward
      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}, {upward},
             {upwardly}] [ant: {down}, {downward}, {downwardly},
             {downwards}]
      2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
         childhood upward" [syn: {up}, {upwards}, {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)}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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