verb
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To stream downward.
adjective
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Lower down, in relation to a river, stream or flow of fluid
example
She lives downstream from the dam.
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In the direction from the server to the client.
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Towards the 3' end of a DNA molecule.
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(metaphoric) Influenced by something; being a consequence of something.
adverb
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Following the path of a river or stream
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We spent the day paddling downstream in our canoes.
Examples of downstream in a Sentence
The view downstream and directly below the bridge was awesome.
What was downstream that it might hit?
Protective works downstream of the dam were completed in 1906 at a cost of about £E304,000.
All crews should ensure that they do not drift downstream of their marshaling position.
More than a thousand bodies were counted; large numbers were swept downstream, or lay bloated on the rocks.
We then set off downstream through the ducks to the point where the twin avens come in.
You must then proceed downstream closed up in a double line, even numbers on the Surrey side, odd numbers on Middlesex.
However, the search for both new components and the downstream effectors of these signaling pathways continues at a furious pace.
The components of the upstream module are highly homologous in amino acid sequence to their downstream counterparts.
This is thought to have the downstream effect of activating transcription factors such as nuclear factor kappa B (NFkB ).
Subsequent arguments and destructive forces typically manifest themselves downstream.
On downstream to survey a series of large oxbows and smaller inlets for another 1.5km leaving several huge upper levels unlooked at.
After breakfast, there's time to explore the riverbanks on foot, then take the motorized canoe back downstream to the lodge.
The Roman road is now shown to have crossed the river 200 meters downstream from the navigation weir.
After breakfast, there 's time to explore the riverbanks on foot, then take the motorized canoe back downstream to the lodge.
Stomping down to the downstream pitches was very pleasant - no sign of any surveying instruments of torture yet.
Carry on downstream from the Third Pitch for a few meters, until a thin rift passage enters up on the left.
The rift drops over jammed boulders to a mud floored boulder pile sloping downstream to a roaring streamway all of 2 meters long.
The State shaman did not accompany the procession downstream, leaving the escort of the spirit rafts with their grisly freight to his assistant.
These allowed a faster flow of water which scoured the riverbed, taking huge amounts of silt downstream into the Firth of Clyde.
The water was built up and stored by closing the two sluices to stop the water flowing downstream.
Alan Clegg was drowned in Lancaster Hole downstream sump.
First I attempt to identify regulatory signals in the sequence downstream of the cleavage site that may be responsible for transcription termination.
Downstream from the junction, the passage becomes less obviously vadose.
About 400 yards downstream from the arched bridge is the lock and a long footbridge which crosses the adjacent weir.
Conventional enzymatic or chemical cleavage techniques and downstream processing methods are employed to produce purified insulin.
Sailing downstream, the first gorge is Qutang, a stretch five miles long with vertical cliff faces.
Downstream of the bridge a statuesque gray heron stood motionless on a stony spit at the tip of a small island.
The delicate travertine formations of upstream hall and the 15m high downstream cascade are worth to be seen.
Downstream of the trident passage - pierces passage junction you come across two parallel quartz veins.
Constriction of the aorta, as in COA, produces resistance to the flow of blood, resulting in raising the blood pressure above the narrowing and reducing blood pressure below or downstream from the narrowing.
Thrombosis-The formation of a blood clot in a vein or artery that may obstruct local blood flow or may dislodge, travel downstream, and obstruct blood flow at a remote location.
When the koi in the tattoo is shown swimming upstream, it can be used to mean that the tattooee is still struggling with his problem, whereas a koi swimming downstream implies that the tattooee has already overcome his difficulty.
In other cases, the koi swimming downstream can represent the season of fall, and the koi swimming upstream can represent the spring.
This maximum downstream or Internet to customer speed is about 8 Mbps, with upstream speeds are about 640 kilobits per second (Kbps).
The best speeds are 1.5 Mbps downstream, with upstream speeds averaging 640 Kbps.
Wrapping the rope around the saddle horn, he nudged Ed into motion, tugging the fallen tree downstream.
The mooring chains, weighing 22 lb per ft., are taken from the upstream end of each pontoon to a downstream screw pile mooring and from the downstream end to an upstream screw pile.
All streams, from the tiniest rill to the greatest river, are continually engaged in transporting downstream solid particles of rock, the product of weathering agencies in the area which they drain.
Three million tons of merchandise pass Magdeburg, going upstream, and nearly i million tons, going downstream, annually.
At Ulm, where the river leaves Wurttemberg and enters Bavaria, it is joined by a large tributary, the Iller, and from this point becomes navigable downstream for specially constructed boats carrying loo tons of merchandise.
This structure, twice as long as the last one, was in more recent years, augmented by a downstream modern bridge.
These products use rate adaption for both the downstream and upstream speeds.
The perch swim was earmarked six meters out but downstream at about a 45-degree angle to the fishing position.
The downstream, northern passage ends at a draughting boulder choke.
In the downstream direction, the digital data typically modulates a 6 MHz television carrier, somewhere between 42 MHz and 750 MHz.
Mature silver eels migrate downstream from the first stormy night in October for two weeks (Fig 3 ).
As the barrel floated downstream, its flames gradually being extinguished, the summer sun was overcome.
The window of sequence includes 300 nucleotides up and downstream of the cluster sequence.
A tow-haired boy happily dropped a Marlboro cigarette box in the churning water and then ran downstream to monitor its progress.