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Upfront vs Upstream - What's the difference?

upfront | upstream |

As adjectives the difference between upfront and upstream

is that upfront is honest, frank and straightforward while upstream is in a direction against the flow of a current or stream; upriver.

As adverbs the difference between upfront and upstream

is that upfront is beforehand while upstream is against the current.

As a noun upfront

is (television) a meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season.

As a verb upfront

is to bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration.

upfront

English

Alternative forms

* up-front

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • honest, frank and straightforward
  • In a forward, leading or frontward position.
  • (of money) paid in advance

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • beforehand
  • (football) As an attacker
    • He's a poor defender, so we always play him upfront .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (television) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 17, author=Bill Carter, title=As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts , where the networks debut their new schedules. }}

    See also

    * (wikipedia "upfront")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, Christopher Hall et al., Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, chapter=Silent and silenced voices, isbn=3110154595, editor=Adam Jaworski, page=204, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=OM4ueFfoRfcC&pg=PA204
    • , passage=What our analysis has, hopefully, upfronted is the importance to resuscitate the suppressed and silenced voices so as to show the powerful mechanisms of institutional "cases".}}

    upstream

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • in a direction against the flow of a current or stream; upriver
  • (oil industry) involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling
  • (computing) in the direction from the client to the server
  • (label) maintained, owned or associated with the original developers of the given software
  • *2013 , Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04 , Pearson Education
  • *:You can also check the upstream' and/or Debian bug trackers for open and closed bugs and the ' upstream revision history or newer release(s).
  • *2012 , Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation , O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 141
  • *:If the developer knows the bug is an upstream' bug but does not know which bug it is in the '''upstream''' bug tracker, he can add an '''''upstream task to the bug report.
  • *2008 , Michael Dennis Scott, Scott on Outsourcing: Law and Practice , Aspen Publishers, page 198
  • *:Because a user generally does not know the pedigree of the open source, it cannot know whether an upstream developer used intellectual property belonging to a third party in developing that software.
  • *2002 , Tony Mancill, Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators , Prentice Hall, page 190
  • *:We'll walk through the steps to build FreeS/WAN using the upstream tarball.
  • (biology) towards the leading end () of a DNA molecule

    • Antonyms

    * downstream

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • against the current

    • Antonyms

    * downstream

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