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UPLOAD

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 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 locationplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UPLOAD (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they upload  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it uploads  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: uploaded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: uploaded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: uploading  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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