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Downstream vs Upstream - What's the difference?

downstream | upstream | Antonyms |

Upstream is an antonym of downstream.

Downstream is an antonym of upstream.


As adjectives the difference between downstream and upstream

is that downstream is lower down, in relation to a river or stream while upstream is in a direction against the flow of a current or stream; upriver.

As adverbs the difference between downstream and upstream

is that downstream is following the path of a river or stream while upstream is against the current.

downstream

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lower down, in relation to a river or stream
    • She lives downstream from the dam.
  • (computing) in the direction from the server to the client
  • (lb) towards the 3' end of a DNA molecule

    • Antonyms

    * upstream

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Following the path of a river or stream
    • We spent the day paddling downstream in our canoes.

    Antonyms

    * upstream

    upstream

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • in a direction against the flow of a current or stream; upriver
  • (oil industry) involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling
  • (computing) in the direction from the client to the server
  • (label) maintained, owned or associated with the original developers of the given software
  • *2013 , Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04 , Pearson Education
  • *: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).
  • *2012 , Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation , O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 141
  • *:If the developer knows the bug is an upstream' bug but does not know which bug it is in the '''upstream''' bug tracker, he can add an '''''upstream task to the bug report.
  • *2008 , Michael Dennis Scott, Scott on Outsourcing: Law and Practice , Aspen Publishers, page 198
  • *:Because a user generally does not know the pedigree of the open source, it cannot know whether an upstream developer used intellectual property belonging to a third party in developing that software.
  • *2002 , Tony Mancill, Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators , Prentice Hall, page 190
  • *:We'll walk through the steps to build FreeS/WAN using the upstream tarball.
  • (biology) towards the leading end () of a DNA molecule

    • Antonyms

    * downstream

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • against the current

    • Antonyms

    * downstream

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