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Ravine vs Upstream - What's the difference?

ravine | upstream |

As a verb ravine

is .

As an adjective upstream is

in a direction against the flow of a current or stream; upriver.

As an adverb upstream is

against the current.

ravine

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=3 citation , passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}

    Derived terms

    * ravine-buck * ravined * ravine-deer

    See also

    * canyon * gorge * gulley, gully * valley

    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

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