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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upwards
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
onwards and upwards
▪ With exports strong, the business is moving onwards and upwards.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
extend
▪ The masts extend upwards to support the central roof and are joined together with three stages of horseshoe timber arches and timber boarding.
▪ The truncated cone, which extends upwards through this cupola, is the original roof.
face
▪ You now have the cards with all of them facing upwards except the top one.
▪ Twisting your wrists forwards, turn your hands upside down so that your palms face upwards and your thumbs point away from you. 9.
▪ With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and hold them as high as possible.
▪ Pull your arms back towards each other 50 times, with palms facing upwards.
▪ With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 30 times.
gaze
▪ He gazed upwards until a lace curtain flicked back and he realised an elderly woman with white hair was studying him suspiciously.
▪ She was still gazing upwards anxiously when Felipe reappeared, and this time he was climbing down.
look
▪ Looking around the stable he at first failed to see Seb, until he looked upwards.
▪ There was a sound above me, and I looked upwards.
▪ She must be riddled, her warm juices all spilled for looking upwards too early into the dawn, leafy with parachutes.
▪ Questioning each other, they milled around, looking upwards with tired eyes.
▪ When you look outwards, you must also look upwards to see people.
▪ When we looked upwards again, we were amazed to see all three Fulmars still flying but firing emergency landing signals.
▪ The young fish settles on the bottom, with both its eyes looking upwards, a strange Picasso-like vision.
move
▪ The weight of the roof pushed the pillars down and the resulting pressure also forced the floor to buckle and move upwards.
▪ Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half.
▪ As they move upwards they lose their nuclei and synthesize the special proteins like keratin that give the skin its protective toughness.
▪ This is caused by condensation in the air which moves upwards as the temperature at lower altitudes rises.
▪ As the magma rises towards the surface the confining pressure drops and gas bubbles begin to form and move upwards.
▪ Indeed the whole colour market is rapidly moving upwards beyond the reach of the amateur following Adobe's tie-up with Scitex.
point
▪ Some of the driving force is lost by D pointing upwards.
▪ One had fifteen segments, a trunk in front of its mouth and five eyes, including one pointing upwards.
▪ In this instance, the jaws should be held together with the nose pointing upwards.
revise
▪ The forecasts for earnings per share this year and in 1994 have been revised upwards to just under 15%.
▪ These expectations have been revised upwards to 27 %.
▪ Skoda plans to produce 300,000 Fabias a year, but that figure could be revised upwards.
▪ But benefits were regularly revised upwards to similar effect elsewhere.
▪ Second quarter figures had to be revised upwards by more than one percentage point from the estimate of 10.3%.
▪ Next year's growth forecast has also been revised upwards, but only from 2.3 percent to 2.4 percent.
stare
▪ His face was the usual grey colour, his mouth was open and his eyes were staring upwards.
▪ He forced himself to stare upwards again.
▪ Then he stared upwards over the ant-hills, to the open down rising above.
▪ We lie on our backs staring upwards, our eyes and throats dry.
▪ The windows are its eyes, she thought, staring upwards.
stretch
▪ Gently stretch upwards for 15 counts.
▪ This time, gently stretch upwards for 10 counts, trying to pull up a bit further with each count.
▪ Bellagio is all cobbled alleyways, stretching upwards and away from the lakeside.
turn
▪ Gary stops his chanting and looks at me, his eyes turned upwards from his locked position.
▪ Around the bar, the sweating, red and white faces of the male tourists turn upwards in salacious worship.
▪ Her face was turned upwards towards the night sky.
work
▪ However, this area is tender, so be gentle. 2 Work upwards when brushing the rear legs.
▪ Work upwards, using zig-zag motion 8.
▪ The process was repeated by starting at the bottom and working upwards.
▪ If you're not sure about your standard, do yourself a favour-start at the bottom and work upwards.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
face up/upwards
▪ He fell across the wall, twisting, face up.
▪ If convicted, they face up to a year in jail and up to a $ 2, 500 fine.
▪ If found guilty, he could face up to two years in jail.
▪ It took time until she could face up to it.
▪ Sabit Brokaj of the Socialist Party faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
▪ We must face up to this.
▪ With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and hold them as high as possible.
▪ With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 35 times.
onwards and upwards
▪ After the last recession ended, unemployment climbed onwards and upwards for another five years.
▪ And set off, onwards and upwards.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A copy of the book lay on the table, its cover facing upwards.
▪ The lighter material floats upwards, carrying heat to the surface of the liquid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before he left the bell tower his eyes were drawn upwards.
▪ It was already off the deck and bearing them smoothly upwards.
▪ Open your fists and as you breathe out, slowly through your mouth, push your palms forward, fingers upwards.
▪ She tilted her chin upwards and put on her loftiest expression.
▪ The tails should tilt slightly upwards.
▪ You know my Wednesday night soup deal has got so it draws upwards of thirty or more at a time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upwards

Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]

  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.

    Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
    --Hooker.

  2. In the upper parts; above.

    Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish.
    --Milton.

  3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

    From twenty years old and upward.
    --Num. i. 3.

    Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.

    I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years.
    --Shak.

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Wiktionary
upwards

adv. 1 Towards a higher place; towards what is above. 2 To a higher figure or amount. 3 Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc. 4 backwards in time, into the past. 5 To or into later life.

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WordNet
upwards

  1. adv. 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, upward, upwardly] [ant: down, down, down, down]

  2. to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up, upward]

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Wikipedia
Upwards (album)

Upwards is the second studio album by British hip hop musician Ty. It was released on Big Dada in 2003. The album was nominated for a Mercury Prize in 2004.

Usage examples of "upwards".

Upwards, now, in silence, the two men climbed until at last they reached a corridor which was aflare with dancing torchlight.

This suggests that at some stage the whole of the Altiplano was forced upwards from the sea-bed, perhaps as part of the general terrestrial rising that formed South America as a whole.

A large body of Birmese troops, amounting to upwards of six thousand men, were known to be posted within a few miles of the town, strongly entrenched behind stockades, and out of reach of our steamers, the artillery practice from which appears to have impressed them with a proper sense of our superiority in that arm of war.

Soul is moved by the higher which, besides encircling and supporting it, actually resides in whatsoever part of it has thrust upwards and attained the spheres.

The lower Soul is moved by the higher which, besides encircling and supporting it, actually resides in whatsoever part of it has thrust upwards and attained the spheres.

Occasionally, as the afternoon waned beyond the portals of the aviary and she would be required to return to the Sanctuary, he would begin thinking of the hopelessness of the situation and a chill would work its way into the base of his spine and crawl upwards along his back like a spider.

The prince began reproaching him for what he had said the day before, but the Neapolitan, far from denying the fact, expressed himself that he had felt himself obliged to shew his respect for his prince by letting him rap him about for upwards of two hours.

Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil.

A metre-wide geyser of water slammed upwards out of the gap, buffeting the corpse with it.

Child Byar, it is your considered estimate that we were attacked in a planned ambush by upwards of fifty wolves and better than half a score of Darkfriends?

The annual loss is computed, by a writer of an inquisitive but censorious temper, at upwards of eight hundred thousand pounds sterling.

Height is in that portion of the tree which remains over from the transverse beam upwards to the top, and this is at the head of the Crucified, because He is the supreme desire of souls of good hope.

Another frantic slave-child was ejected upwards from the scrum by the door, screaming until it slapped into the ceiling and dropped lifeless to the slowly tilting deck.

We have now to add that, since things engendered tend downwards and not upwards and, especially, move towards multiplicity, the first principle of all must be less a manifold than any.

His mortal form went plummeting to the earth but before Daklin could even draw the hook back from his waist, a mist enshrouded the vampire and when it cleared, a huge, black winged hawk was flying upwards.