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Definition: Download |
DownloadVerb1. Transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Download vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a far-away system (especially a larger `host' system) over a digital communications link to a nearby system (especially a smaller `client' system. Oppose upload. Historical use of these terms was at one time associated with transfers from large timesharing machines to PCs or peripherals (download) and vice-versa (upload). The modern usage relative to the speaker (rather than as an indicator of the size and role of the machines) evolved as machine categories lost most of their former functional importance. Source: Jargon File. |
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Download is the name of a band created by Dwayne R. Goettel of Skinny Puppy prior to his death. Goettel's legacy is now carried on by bandmate cEvin Key. Download's music has been described as industrial, featuring a blend of synthesizers and sampled instruments; the music is particularly centered around elements of percussion and rhythm.In addition to the regular band members cEvin Key and Phil Western, at various times the band has featured Genesis P. Orridge, Mark Spybey, Anthony Valcic, and Ken Marshall. Earlier releases frequently included vocal elements and lyrics, but later releases have tended to be strictly instrumental.
Discography
- Furnace (1995)
- The Eyes of Stanley Pain (1996)
- Charlie's Family (1997)
- III (1997)
- Effector (2000)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Download (band)."
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The terms upload and download often create confusion, as their definition depends on the context.To download is computer jargon meaning to transfer information (usually one or more files) from a server to a client. In a peer-to-peer or file_sharing environment, download often refers to a transfer to your local computer.
A transfer in the reverse direction is called an upload. In a peer-to-peer environment, upload often refers to a transfer from your local computer.
As a noun, a download is the information transferred or the act of transferring it.
In normal usage, a file is typically uploaded or copied to a server once and subsequently downloaded many times by many clients.
In some circumstances, either machine might be considered the "server" or the "client". Generally, the server is the larger computer, to which many smaller clients connect. An exception is used when talking about data transfers between space vehicles and ground stations; in this case, every transfer from the space vehicle is a download, while every transfer to it is an upload.
In surfing the World Wide Web the term downloading usually is not used for simply bringing up a web page, but rather for transferring a larger file and/or directly saving it. In a network, the term downloading usually is not used for copying files from one network device to another even if one computer is acting as a host. (See copy.)
See also : FTP, P2P, Download manager
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Uploading and downloading."
| Antonym: upload (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Download |
| Specialty definitions using "download": COM ♦ diskless workstation, downloading ♦ EMBLA Pro ♦ Graphics Interchange Format ♦ Java archive ♦ leech mode ♦ ratio site ♦ Universal Communications X ♦ V.90. (references) |
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Screenplays | Just walk right into Precrime, go into the Temple, somehow tap into the Precogs, and then download this Minority Report (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank) | |
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| "Download me please" by A D C Commentary: "Scenes near the train station....." | "Line of Chairs" by Ian Archambeau Commentary: "A line of chairs. If your going to download the picture it would be cool if you could leave a comment why, thanks." |
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Business | Yamaha hopes that their on-line download business will help their musical instrument sales. (references) | |
To apply for licenses, one may download application forms from the regulatory agency's website. (references) | ||
The ZPDee systems’ Internet connection is always turned on, charges are based on megabyte download. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hong Kong | GSD-registered suppliers can download tender documents, submit tender offers and related questions. (references) |
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Jan Ronis | Well, it's a misdemeanor. But keep in mind, it's now, I think, been convincingly proven by the defense that it was the son was the most likely source of the download of that pornography. |
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| "Download" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 45.16% of the time. "Download" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 45.16% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 32.26% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.58% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "download"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 下载 (downloading). (various references) | |
Czech | zavést (adopt, bring up, carry, inaugurate, introduce, lead on, warp), přesunout (defer, dislocate, displace, hold over). (various references) | |
Dutch | downloaden. (various references) | |
Esperanto | subenŝarĝi. (various references) | |
French | télécharger. (various references) | |
German | nachladen (recharge, reload, to download, to recharge, to reload). (various references) | |
Italian | caricare (accuse, burden, cargo, charge, fill, freight, Lade, load, load up, prime, strech, tackle, take on, upload, weigh down, weight, wind up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ダイヤフラム圧力計 (chinese checkers, dial, dial tone, dial-up, diamond, diaphragm gauge, direct, direct mail, direct marketing, direct sales, diving, doubt, Dow, down, downsizing, downtown, switching from mainframe to personal computers). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダウンロード . (various references) | |
Korean | 다운로드. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ownloadday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | puxar informações ou programas no computador, carregar (bear, burden, carry, carrying, charge, convey, freight, heap, lade, load, shot, stoke, tamp, tote, wear). (various references) | |
Russian | загружать (inswap, swap, swop, upload). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | istovariti (detrain, discharge, dump, unload). (various references) | |
Spanish | descargar (abreact, deal, discharge, empty, let on, offload, release, unload, wreak one's anger, write off), bajar archivos, bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references) | |
Swedish | ladda ner. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | загруджати. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "download": downloadable, downloaded, downloading, downloads. (additional references) | |
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"Download" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dowload, dwnload, Sowonola, townload. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "download" (pronounced dou"nlō'd) |
| 4 | -n l ō' d | planeload. |
| 3 | -l ō' d | boatload, carload, caseload, overload, payload, shipload, truckload, workload. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: woodland. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-l-n-o-o-w" | |
-3 letters: adown, nodal, waldo, woald. | |
-4 letters: alow, awol, dado, dawn, dodo, dona, down, land, lawn, load, loan, loon, lown, nolo, wand, woad, wold, wood, wool. | |
-5 letters: add, ado, and, awl, awn, dad, dal, daw, dol, don, dow, lad, law, loo, low, naw, nod, noo, now, odd, old, owl, own, wad, wan, won, woo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-l-n-o-o-w" | |
+1 letter: downloads, woodlands. | |
+2 letters: candlewood, downloaded, sandalwood, woodlander. | |
+3 letters: candlewoods, downloading, sandalwoods, woodlanders. | |
+4 letters: downloadable. | |
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