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Vinony

upstream

adjective

  1. on upper part of river
  2. near beginning of process
L31936 on Wikidata ↗

adverb

  1. toward source of river
  2. towards beginning of process
  3. refers to the direction in which data can be transferred from the client to the server (uploading)
L31937 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʌpˈstɹiːm/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English up- English stream English upstream From up- + stream.

  1. In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
  2. Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.

    “Input entry is upstream of input validation in the runtime process.”

  3. Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
  4. Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
  5. Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.

    “The outage was caused by an upstream error in a payments library.”

    “You can also check the upstream and/or Debian bug trackers for open and closed bugs and the upstream revision history or newer release(s).”

  6. Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English up- English stream English upstream From up- + stream.

  1. Against the current.

    “In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.”

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English up- English stream English upstream From up- + stream.

  1. Part of the river towards the upstream direction.

    “The total depth of water at the upstream was measured by using a pointer attached to a carriage sitting on the water table walls.”

  2. The original developers or maintainers of software.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English up- English stream English upstream From up- + stream.

  1. To stream upward.
  2. To have (a software library, patch, etc.) accepted by the original developers of the related software, so that they maintain and distribute it.

    “I'd be more than happy to upstream your patch.”