(adv.) Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
(a.) Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.
(a.) Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(2) Gillard faces an uphill battle convincing the electorate to back her.
(3) Like the parental strain, all three types of triple mutant showed moderate rates of downhill lactose transport and were defective in the uphill accumulation of sugars.
(4) The ascorbate oxidation was coupled to the uphill Na+ extrusion which was stimulated by CCCP and a penetrating weak base, diethylamine, as well as by valinomycin with or without diethylamine.
(5) Physiological strain was greater in uphill than in level or downhill walking (P less than .001).
(6) Senator Davis is a strong, viable, credible candidate who has raised a substantial amount of money and is the best candidate for Democrats – but it’s still an uphill battle,” he said.
(7) These results indicate that body posture can affect energy expenditure during uphill bicycling through factors unrelated to air resistance.
(8) It functions as a pair of easy-to-use skis for walking uphill, then when it’s time to head down, it quickly transforms into a toboggan for riding safely and enjoyably back to the resort, perhaps even with a few powder turns along the way.
(9) Speaking to the Guardian, Rotheram acknowledged the party faced an uphill struggle in a campaign the Tories are framing as a personality contest between party leaders.
(10) Stonewall does great work but the gay campaign for marriage equality faced an uphill struggle, which was made worse by Stonewall constantly undermining our efforts.
(11) It's going to be uphill for LA here - New York should be thinking: "No stupid penalties, no stupid penalties..." and repeat.
(12) As the transport of cefaclor showed no uphill uptake in the presence of a H+ gradient and its H+ stimulated uptake was small, a H+ gradient-independent carrier-mediated system seems to participate in its transport.
(13) The post-trial injection of 1 ng SP (in 0.5 microliter volume) led to significantly longer latencies in the uphill response.
(14) These are our treaty lands, and we need to protect clean water.’ Photograph: Sam Levin for the Guardian In a recent interview, Archambault acknowledged that the tribes face an uphill battle in the US judicial system: “We always knew that the federal court system was against Indian country.
(15) Heart rate and skiing velocities were analyzed over a flat, an uphill, and a downhill section, as well as for the total loop.
(16) Although efforts to win over Republican hawks appear close to gaining sufficient support in the Senate, the White House continues to face an uphill struggle to persuade enough members of Congress from both parties to authorise its planned strike against Syria in the House.
(17) We have a lot to do in the run up to 2020 – there’s a long road ahead of us and it will be an uphill struggle, but if we can mobilise more people, young and old, and continue to provide a real alternative to austerity and Obsornomics, we might just be in with a fighting chance.
(18) Dyspnoea grade 1 (shortness of breath when walking quickly on the level or uphill) was less well related to age.
(19) Transport of L-glutamic acid into the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe grown to the early stationary phase and preincubated for 60 min with 1% D-glucose is practically unidirectional and is mediated by a single uphill transport system with a KT of 170 microM and Jmax of 4.8 nmol min-1 (mg dry wt.)-1.
(20) It has been possible to form vesicles from the purified enzyme from Squalus acanthias and to demonstrate the ATP-dependent, ouabain inhibitable, coupled uphill transports of Na+ and K+.
Upward
Definition:
(adv.) Alt. of Upwards
(a.) Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
(n.) The upper part; the top.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
(2) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(3) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(4) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
(5) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
(6) In this study downward gaze was more severely disturbed than upward gaze.
(7) on, whereas palpation is only possible upward of 15 mm.
(8) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
(9) We have the nuclear-related wealth, which captures the highly skilled and the affluent and the upwardly mobile.
(10) In the absence of glutamine the aggregate is readily dissociated following dilution of the extract; that is, velocity concaves upward as a function of increasing protein concentration.
(11) This contralateral defect involved the foot and extended upwards to end in a sensory level.
(12) Isolated frog retinas kept receptor side-upward in a moist chamber without perfusion showed the well-known slow PIII generated by the potassium decrease around receptors.
(13) Levels of alpha 1-antitrypsin (A 1-AT) showed marked season-related fluctuation patterns in Co children, the curves in E group children turned steeply upward from the third examination series on.
(14) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
(15) UMLBs (n = 14) had no spontaneous activity and emitted bursts of action potentials that preceded rapid eye movements by approximately 6 ms. Parameters of the burst (duration and number of spikes) were highly correlated with parameters of the rapid eye movement (duration and amplitude of the upward displacement of the eyes).
(16) Put simply, there would have to be evidence that ultra-low oil prices are having only a temporary downward impact on inflation and have helped disguise upward pressure on wages caused by falling unemployment.
(17) With systole there is downward (caudal) flow of CSF in the aqueduct of Sylvius, the foramen of Magendie, the basal cisterns and the dorsal and ventral subarachnoid spaces while during diastole, upward (cranial) flow of CSF in these same structures is seen.
(18) During the operation an upward looping PICA was found crossing and tightly compressing the exit zone of the right facial nerve.
(19) After upward transposition of the anterior lamella, the excised skin is very suitable for covering the free tarsal surface.
(20) Assuming no future environmental or lifestyle changes, the upward trend in age-adjusted mortality rates, which averaged 2 to 3% per annum since 1950, is projected to discontinue and bend downward by the second decade of the 21st century.