DOWNLOAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does download mean? 

• DOWNLOAD (verb)
  The verb DOWNLOAD has 1 sense:

1. transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location

  Familiarity information: DOWNLOAD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOWNLOAD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they download    ... he / she / it downloads   
Past simple: downloaded   
Past participle: downloaded   
-ing form: downloading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "download" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

upload (transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location)

 Context examples 

This will allow a novel type of personalised and efficient healthcare, allowing us to 'download' a sequence of actions into cells, instructing them to execute complex decisions encoded in the RNA.

(Cells Programmed Like Computers to Fight Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For an in-depth research in European demographics we encourage you to download this spreadsheet.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

The Matemagos game was developed for Android and iOS platforms, and can be downloaded for free.

(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)

The information we have used for this study is available for download in Excel spreadsheet format here: pgr_trends.xls.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)