Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Going up; moving upward.

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  • adjective physics, seismology, of a wave Trending positive
  • adjective medicine Dorsiflexional
  • verb Present participle of upgo.

Etymologies

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up +‎ going

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Examples

  • Around volcano powerful upgoing airflows exist, and they can drag large particle up to several miles.

    Those computer models… 2010

  • Iended upgoing with the pork chops, which werepretty thick andcovered in grilled onions (the way all meat should come at a latin food place!).

    With Latin Food This Good, La Strada Doesn’t Need to Serve Pizza | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2007

  • Douglas Hoyt and Schatten has a different way of calculating solar influences on climate, where the peak influence is during the upgoing flank of the cycle, but he may explain that better himself here.

    Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit 2007

  • About 80% of the events is in the upgoing and downgoing flanks first and third quarter of the cycle, only 20% near maximum or minimum.

    KTH, Stockholm Conference « Climate Audit 2006

  • The upgoing men were bound for his camps, and were inquiring as to his whereabouts; the downgoing men stated that he was roaring from one log-landing to another, driving men and horses to make

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • Thus their course was almost parallel to our upgoing journey, and some

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • South-West, we should hit off Woodhouse Lagoon of our upgoing journey.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Near Mount Bannerman, where our camels were poisoned on the upgoing journey, this plant was not growing.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Wells, yet these were comparatively low and less steep than those further north, and therefore their extent is not included in this reckoning -- we traversed 420 miles on the upgoing journey, and 451 miles on the return journey -- that is, 871 miles of actual travelling over a desert of sand blown by the wind into parallel ridges of the height and frequency already described.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Statisics for incoming and upgoing clicks for each affiliate / user.

    ASP.NET Forums 2009

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