What's the difference between downstairs and upstairs?

Downstairs


Definition:

  • (adv.) Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
  • (a.) Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I’ve got it downstairs on tape.” We followed her to the TV room.
  • (2) You want to explore the darker things in life – death is a part of life, sadness is a part of life - but we don’t ever want to be morose.” Later on, Phil comes back downstairs.
  • (3) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
  • (4) She charges £65 a week for the downstairs room in the four-bedroom bungalow she shares with her sister.
  • (5) Five feet of water filled his kitchen and downstairs in the building that also houses his architectural practice, Red Raven Design.
  • (6) Our attitude was like Mr T and Rocky downstairs in the basement listening to a radio with a hanger sticking out of it doing push-ups.
  • (7) Rather than open downstairs and piss off the council, I decided to take it more slowly,” he says.
  • (8) Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
  • (9) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
  • (10) "We are currently repainting the flat in anticipation of great guests, new members of the extended family and anyone else we can get to flog the tat from Dad's shop downstairs.
  • (11) In my locker downstairs, my (Elizabeth David-approved) lunchtime sandwich of prosciutto and brie patiently awaited my return, but even so, it was a dispiriting business.
  • (12) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
  • (13) When his best man sent an invite on Facebook, he assumed that everyone had seen it and we ended up with that panic phone call, a sprint downstairs and a mad dash (all within legal speed limits, of course) down the M3.
  • (14) I had always been a big Romola Garai fan, now I was a diehard groupie, as were my friends, everyone tweeting about how much they loved this woman with the downstairs wound, whether they knew who she was or not.
  • (15) Mum came downstairs and asked me what was wrong – and it all came out – literally.
  • (16) It was found a significant statistical difference (p < 0.05) between the two groups concerning the age of evaluation, beginning of symptoms, difficulty in walking, running, climbing and going downstairs, frequent falling down, support to walk, localized muscle pain, stopping climb stairs, and inability to walk.
  • (17) The BBC1 drama – penned by Cranford and Upstairs, Downstairs writer Heidi Thomas – will delve into tales of life and midwifery in London's East End in the 1950s.
  • (18) On the day she died I came downstairs and she couldn’t breathe properly so I phoned the ambulance, who said if she gets worse call us back.
  • (19) The drawing-room downstairs is known as Mrs O'Shea's room.
  • (20) He explains that, as a resident of the first mezzanine, I am not permitted to walk downstairs and potentially bother the A-list.

Upstairs


Definition:

  • (adv.) Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
  • (a.) Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (3) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
  • (4) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
  • (5) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
  • (6) Start upstairs at Siltanen , and then descend to a concert at Kuudes Linja or to party at Kaiku .
  • (7) 'I pitched it to producers I knew and they liked it,' says Chaiken, 'but they thought it would be hard to pitch "to the guys upstairs", so it never went anywhere.
  • (8) For several episodes his wife Hilda said Stan was sick in bed upstairs at no 13.
  • (9) However there is little time to savour the triumph with his team, because of the extensive media duties: telly, radio, telly... then upstairs for the newspaper hacks.
  • (10) From upstairs comes the reassuring sound of children bickering.
  • (11) After the soundcheck, I'm packed off back upstairs.
  • (12) The upstairs living room, which I remember from the last time I interviewed her as slightly gloomy, crowded with towers of books and magazines and oppressive paintings and wall hangings, is today brightened by yet more flowers, all in deep shades of orange and red.
  • (13) Upstairs there’s a gallery space perfect for rehearsals, talks and live performances, while on the ground floor is a large communal area, with lots of scope for lounging with a cocktail, craft Beavertown beer, or excellent-value wine.
  • (14) Certainly my son's journey upstairs is a less reluctant one because he has enjoyed watching the characters putting themselves to bed, as they do at the end of every episode.
  • (15) "Your dad used to go upstairs and read you stories in the half light," she replies.
  • (16) This romantic – if slightly cramped – bistro in Lexington Street is hard to get into as it effectively acts as a dining room for the great and not so good of Soho's literary establishment, who often frequent the Academy Club upstairs.
  • (17) This was where thousands of students, faculty and members of the community gathered on Wednesday night in a stunning vigil to show their solidarity with the family and friends of Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, who police say were fatally shot by their upstairs neighbour on Tuesday.
  • (18) 'He said he was coming late, so I went upstairs to a lounge bar called the Dragon Fly which is a few doors away.
  • (19) Six rescuers waded through and made their way upstairs.
  • (20) We took a circular stairs upstairs to the first floor of the cafe and up there were more witnesses and wounded people.

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