What is the meaning of upward?

adjective

• Directed up.
  • usage: "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
• Extending or moving toward a higher place.
  • usage: "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"
  • synonyms: up

adverb

• Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position.
  • usage: "look up"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"
  • synonyms: up, upwards, upwardly
• To a later time.
  • usage: "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
  • synonyms: up, upwards