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UPLOAD
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does upload mean?
• UPLOAD (verb)
The verb UPLOAD has 1 sense:
1. transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location
Familiarity information: UPLOAD used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: uploaded
Past participle: uploaded
-ing form: uploading
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "upload" is one way to...):
transfer (move from one place to another)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
download (transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location)
Context examples
Another batch of 2017 Kepler data was recently uploaded to Exoplanet Explorers for citizen scientists to peer through.
(Multi-planet System Found Through Crowdsourcing, NASA)
It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.
(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)
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