What's the difference between downriver and downstream?

Downriver


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest London Bridge, 1.30pm Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘A wooden cross floats downriver.
  • (2) Increases in the thermophilic amoeba concentrations were noted in Savannah River oxbows downriver from the Savannah River plant discharge streams as compared with oxbows upriver from the discharges.
  • (3) That process has slowed as workers make their way downriver and run into increasingly large piles of debris, Chernow said.
  • (4) Their monasteries were among the first to be purged after the small town and seat of Buddhist learning, about six hours downriver from Mandalay, became the crucible of the demonstrations that spread nationwide.
  • (5) Lowest survival occurred at the station near Salem, NJ, approximately 30 km downriver of the primary spawning grounds, where less than 1% of the larvae survived in any of the tests.
  • (6) Eight days after the town of Bento Rodrigues was swept away by 50m cubic metres of toxic mud, a slow-moving tide of toxic iron-ore residue is oozing downriver, polluting the water supply of hundreds of thousands of residents as it makes its way to the ocean.
  • (7) Downriver in neighbouring Mozambique , floodwaters have left at least 38 dead, according to the Mozambican news agency AIM, displaced tens of thousands and damaged the main road linking the north and south of the country.
  • (8) The first 2 species did not exhibit consistent seasonal infection patterns between years, whereas the prevalence and mean intensity of R. canadensis in dace from the downriver locality were higher in summer 1983, 1984, and 1985.
  • (9) test suspensions, prepared to minimize sublethal injury, were exposed in a shallow tidal creek and at a site 7.1 km further downriver.
  • (10) "We were returning from a trip downriver with the fishermen," she remembered.
  • (11) Solemn images of it being borne downriver on an inflated raft evoked – for me, at least – Winston Churchill's river-borne cortege, as seen on a crackling black-and-white, veneered family television back in 1966.
  • (12) Population growth has sapped its energy upstream, and what "freshwater" does make it downriver is increasingly awash with toxins and other impurities.
  • (13) But further downriver, the effects are more pronounced.
  • (14) Lake Somerville, one of the Brazos reservoirs, was “gushing uncontrollably” over the spillway, threatening people downriver, he said.

Downstream


Definition:

  • (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
  • (2) Protein kinase C (PKC) is activated rapidly and transiently following ionizing radiation exposure and is postulated to activate downstream nuclear signal transducers.
  • (3) In contrast, cholesterol precursors downstream from lanosterol, i.e., desmosterol and 7-dehydrocholesterol, completely replaced cholesterol in supporting NS-1 cell growth.
  • (4) By allelic exchange using cloned PI genes from FA19 (PIA) and MS11 (PIB) and a selectable marker introduced closely downstream of these genes, we constructed sets of isogenic gonococcal strains that differ only in their PI gene.
  • (5) By using our DNA probe, we could disclose, in addition to the StyI site at amino acid position 420, two further StyI site downstream: one was specific for the GC*1S allele and another for the GC*1F allele.
  • (6) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
  • (7) By placing the thigh in external flexion-rotation the deep femoral artery can readily be approached downstream the first perforating artery.
  • (8) It also suggests that the -10 and its downstream regions are more important than the -35 region for the formation of the E sigma A-P2 promoter open complex.
  • (9) By using primer 1 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGGAATCCAGGATCTG-3', upstream nucleotides 157 to 2877), primer 2 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGAACGTGAAGGAATCG-3', upstream nucleotides 1846 to 2877), and primer 4(5'-ATAAAGCTTAATCAGACGTTCTCTTCTTC-3', downstream nucleotides 157 to 2877 and 1846 to 2877), the HCMV B gene code region sequence and its glycoprotein 52 kd antigenic domain sequence were amplified from the recombinant plasmid pBH1 DNA containing the HCMV B gene.
  • (10) The sequence analysis showed a single nucleotide substitution (G----A) at position 69 nts (delta +69) downstream to the polyA addition site.
  • (11) The insertion at codon 24 ends protein translation and has a polar effect on the expression of the downstream umuC gene.
  • (12) Repair within the gene was shown to be much more efficient than that in silent downstream sequences or in the genome overall.
  • (13) We identified a 700-codon open reading frame, downstream from the flbF promoter region, that was predicted to be the flbF structural gene.
  • (14) The differential component force Fm - Fa provides the ventricular impulse needed to overcome the inertia of the system due to (1) the mass of the blood, (2) the geometrical constriction of the outflow tract as one moves downstream (Bernoulli effect), and (2) the moving ventricular walls.
  • (15) The transposons were altered so that upon insertion into the chromosome, transcription fusions are formed in which the promoter regions of fla genes drive the expression of the downstream promoter-less drug resistance genes.
  • (16) Preliminary evidence is presented showing that the downstream open reading frame is functional in vivo.
  • (17) Regulation of argininosuccinate synthetase (AS) was studied by using minigenes containing 3 kilobases of DNA upstream from the TATAA box and 9 kilobases downstream (including the first four exons of the AS gene) ligated to either the cDNA for AS or to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene.
  • (18) When the CRP site was placed far downstream of the promoter, a moderate repression of transcription was observed.
  • (19) A mouse homologue was indeed identified and is located 16 kb downstream of the C alpha 1 exon.
  • (20) We propose that the -10 hexamer sequence and the adjacent downstream region are both important in regulating transcription by ppGpp.

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