英语词汇“upward”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	upward
释义	up·ward I. \ˈəpwə(r)d\ adverb or up·wards \-dz\ Etymology: upward from Middle English, from Old English ūpweard, from ūp up + -weard -ward; upwards from Middle English upwardes, from Old English ūpweardes, from ūpweard + -es (adverbially functioning gen. singular ending of nouns) — more at up, -s I 1. a. : toward a higher position : in a direction from a lower to a higher place < the land gradually rose upward — J.P.Marquand > < his hands were groping upward — James Hilton > b. : toward the source of a stream or the interior of a region < an explorer moving upward from a river mouth finds a place at which the stream divides — A.A.Hill > c. : in a higher or the highest relative position < holding out her right hand, palm upwards — Tomorrow > d. : in the upper parts especially of the body : toward the head : above < from the waist upward > < sea monster, upward man and downward fish — John Milton > 2. archaic : toward the past 3. : toward a higher or better condition, status, or level < forced his way steadily upwards by his mere soldierlike qualities — J.A.Froude > < both man and the manlike apes have developed upwards from a common prehistoric ancestral stock — R.W.Murray > < the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward — Time > 4. a. : to an indefinitely greater amount, figure, or rank < from $5 upward > < each claiming as his own anywhere from 100 head upward — Agnes M. Cleaveland > b. : toward a greater amount or higher number, degree, or rate < higher incomes shot swiftly upward — Oscar Handlin > < building costs have proved flexible upward but not downward — T.W.Arnold > 5. : toward or into later years < from his youth upward > 6. : toward a large city 7. : toward the top (as of a sheet of paper) < this stroke … is written upward — Dwight McEwen > II. preposition Etymology: Middle English, from upward, adverb archaic : up along < upward ragged precipices flit to save poor lambkins — John Keats > III. adjective Etymology: upward (I) 1. a. : directed toward a higher place : ascending < the drive along that winding upward track — Norman Douglas > < a general upward movement of fish > b. : situated in a higher place or position < scaling the upward sky — P.B.Shelley > 2. : marked by improvement or progress < the line of upward development which led to the anthropoid — R.W.Murray > 3. : upstream < discovered and named the falls … which they had barely missed on the upward journey — American Guide Series: Minnesota > 4. : rising to a higher pitch < her words had an upward inflection — Ethel Wilson > 5. : marked by an increase : rising < prices … continued their upward movement — N.H.Brown > < struggling … against the upward trend of wages — Alzada Comstock > < look forward to an unending upward market — K.D.Burke > 6. : directed toward the top (as toward the top of a sheet of paper) < an upward stroke — J.R.Gregg > • up·ward·ly adverb • up·ward·ness noun -es IV. noun obsolete : top, crown < extremest upward of thy head — Shakespeare >
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