UPHILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uphill mean? 

• UPHILL (noun)
  The noun UPHILL has 1 sense:

1. the upward slope of a hill

  Familiarity information: UPHILL used as a noun is very rare.

• UPHILL (adjective)
  The adjective UPHILL has 1 sense:

1. sloping upward

  Familiarity information: UPHILL used as an adjective is very rare.

• UPHILL (adverb)
  The adverb UPHILL has 2 senses:

1. against difficulties

2. upward on a hill or incline

  Familiarity information: UPHILL used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPHILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The upward slope of a hill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("uphill" is a kind of...):

acclivity; ascent; climb; raise; rise; upgrade (an upward slope or grade (as in a road))

• UPHILL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sloping upward

Synonyms:

acclivitous; rising; uphill

Similar:

ascending (moving or going or growing upward)

• UPHILL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Against difficulties

Context example:

she was talking uphill

Sense 2

Meaning:

Upward on a hill or incline

Context example:

this street lay uphill

 Context examples 

“It’s a long four miles uphill from here to Hand Cross,” said my uncle, as we flew through Cuckfield.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

ATPase, Aminophospholipid Transporter-Like, Class I, Type 8A, Member 2, encoded by the ATP8A2 gene, is an integral membrane protein has similarity to P-type ATPases, proteins that drive uphill transport of ions across membranes.

(ATPase, Aminophospholipid Transporter-Like, Class I, Type 8A, Member 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The prize-story experience had seemed to open a way which might, after long traveling and much uphill work, lead to this delightful chateau en Espagne.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Angina occurs on walking or climbing stairs rapidly, walking uphill, walking or climbing stairs after meals, or in cold, in wind, or under emotional stress, or only during the few hours after awakening.

(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class, NCI Thesaurus)

No liquefaction was identified uphill of the aqueduct.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

It was a slight uphill climb, for the foresail peaked high; and the halyards, running through various blocks on the gaff and mast, gave him separate holds for hands and feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

These differences, together with the prominent veins seen in images taken a little farther uphill, illustrate how the layers of Mount Sharp provide a record of different stages in the evolution of the area's ancient environment.

(Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars, NASA)

I am aware, more aware than Crawford can be, that the man who means to make you love him (you having due notice of his intentions) must have very uphill work, for there are all your early attachments and habits in battle array; and before he can get your heart for his own use he has to unfasten it from all the holds upon things animate and inanimate, which so many years' growth have confirmed, and which are considerably tightened for the moment by the very idea of separation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Get your weight right forward on the splashboard now that we are going uphill, nephew.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course it was uphill work at first, and Jo made queer mistakes, but the wise Professor steered her safely into calmer waters, and the most rampant ragamuffin was conquered in the end.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)