Meaning of upward

(adj) directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"

extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"

(adv) 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"

to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"