(n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.
(n.) The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.
(a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
(a.) Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sombre tones he did indeed acknowledge that there are no sunny uplands as we "now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war" .
(2) One way TransCanada might get around what Clinton called the Keystone “distraction” and pump more tar sands crude into the US might be the Upland pipeline, which the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has termed a “mini Keystone” .
(3) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(4) Investigations were carried out over three grazing seasons with parasitized and treated (control) steers on irrigated and non-irrigated upland and dikeland pastures.
(5) Bait trapping at upland sites in England and Wales, mainly at 400-700 m altitude, showed that Calliphora vomitoria L. usually outnumbered all other blowflies.
(6) In upland regions such as Harange, it is the backbone of the economy, employing thousands of farmers, packers, harvesters and traders.
(7) The 12 different soils studied represented four general soil groups: I, leached acid upland soils; II, saline alkaline soils; III, nonsaline neutral soils; and IV, high organic soils.
(8) This unexpected result was followed by the more surprising finding that the incidence of resistance was even higher in the bacterial populations of two remote upland tarns.
(9) The flight ranges of these species overlap the EEE epizoötic zone, and the results of these studies support the hypothesis that these species are involved in the transfer of EEE virus from swamp to upland habitats.
(10) ; Upland, Calif.; Magna, Utah; and Grand Canyon, Ariz.
(11) The cut-and-carry goat production system based on feeding leaves from plantation shade trees, mainly Leucaena leucocephala, shows the potential of goat production as an integral part of upland farming systems in East Java.
(12) A similar strategy has informed my translation; although my own part of England is separated from Lud's Church by the swollen uplands of the Peak District, coaxing Gawain and his poem back into the Pennines was always part of the plan.
(13) For the writers of the software, the upgrade path takes us all towards the sunlit uplands.
(14) He was hauled out unconscious somewhere downstream, but was back at work three days later.” We are in Fljótsdalur, an upland valley made famous in the 1930s by novelist Gunnar Gunnarsson, who lived up here.
(15) In contrast, the southern and lower altitudinal limits of upland and northern vegetation are likely to be controlled by temperature-sensitive competition with southern or lowland species.
(16) The funding crisis isn’t just something that’s going to happen in 2020 – it’s happening right now.” Schools face years of funding cuts if Tories win election, say thinktanks Read more Liam Collins, headteacher of Uplands community college in East Sussex, said his school was hundreds of thousands of pounds worse off.
(17) The sources of water, from upland surfaces, artesian wells and rivers, were classified in eight groups, and significant associations were found for cancers of the stomach, oesophagus, prostate, male bladder and female breast, and for hypertensive and chronic rheumatic heart disease.
(18) Where most of the UK sees a decline in manufacturing, lay-offs in the steel industry and widespread insecurity about the global economy, George Osborne sees only sunlit uplands, smiling faces and Hovis adverts.
(19) The new system needs to support nature in the lowlands as well as the uplands.
(20) Upland areas including Salisbury Plain, the South Downs and North Downs are set to be the worst affected by the downpours, and the Met Office has issued an amber warning for the area, urging locals to "be prepared".
Uplandish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.