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UPSTREAM

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

UPSTREAM is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

UPSTREAMS-s 11 UPSTREAMING-ing 11 UPSTREAMED-ed 11
adjective
  1. In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
  2. figurativelyOccurring 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. figurativelyInvolving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
  4. figurativelyIn the direction from the client to the server.
  5. figurativelyMaintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
    • The outage was caused by an upstream error in a payments library.
  6. figurativelyTowards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
adverb
  1. Against the current.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo stream upward.
  2. transitiveTo 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.
noun
  1. Part of the river towards the upstream direction.
  2. The original developers or maintainers of software.