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Inner vs Upstream - What's the difference?

inner | upstream |

As adjectives the difference between inner and upstream

is that inner is being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something while upstream is in a direction against the flow of a current or stream; upriver.

As a noun inner

is an inner part.

As an adverb upstream is

against the current.

inner

English

Adjective

  • Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
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  • Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
  • Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
  • Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
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  • Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure, ; innermost or essential, needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
  • Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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    Synonyms

    * interior * internal

    Antonyms

    * outer

    Derived terms

    * innerness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inner part.
  • A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
  • (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    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

    Anagrams

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