soar upwards
— Verb
– English
~ rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen"
upwards
— Adverb
– English
~ spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"
upwards
— Adverb
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~ to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
upwind
— Adverb
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~ away from the wind; "they were sailing leeward"
upwind
— Adverb
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~ in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind"
upwind
— Adjective
– English
~ towards the side exposed to wind
Ur
— Noun
– English
~ an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River
uracil
— Noun
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~ a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
uraemia
— Noun
– English
~ accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine
uraemic
— Adjective
– English
~ of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency)
Ural Mountains
— Noun
– English
~ a mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia
Ural-Altaic
— Noun
– English
~ a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
uralic
— Noun
– English
~ a family of Ural-Altaic languages
Uralic language
— Noun
– English
~ a family of Ural-Altaic languages
urals
— Noun
– English
~ a mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia
uranalysis
— Noun
– English
~ (medicine) the chemical analysis of urine (for medical diagnosis)
Urania
— Noun
– English
~ goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
Urania
— Noun
– English
~ (Greek mythology) the Muse of astronomy
uraninite
— Noun
– English
~ a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore
uranium 238
— Noun
– English
~ the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239