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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Downloading download. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Food & Agriculture | A calculated reduction in payload to provide a margin of safety. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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."
Crosswords: DOWNLOADING |
| Specialty definitions using "DOWNLOADING": crapplet ♦ leapfrog attack ♦ manufacturing execution system ♦ ratio site ♦ SB AWE32, SoftModem. (references) |
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Screenplays | Downloading smut again (Pauly; writing credit: Mark Alton Brown; Dee LaDuke) Yeah, there's nothing hotter than sitting alone, downloading pictures of naked women (The Faculty; writing credit: Richard Carpenter) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nerve.com: Downloading Sex (2002) | |
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| "Unfurling_with_aphid" by archgimp Commentary: "Saw this beautiful rose on a walk in the park and after downloading the image noticed the aphid... :o)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Business | Fees for downloading via i-mode (cell phone with Internet access) in general are 300 yen or lower. (references) | |
Consumers have to do several clicking motions before they can actually start downloading to install software first. (references) | ||
In addition to sending short messages, SMS also allows downloading of information from a WAP site - translated into the form of an SMS message. (references) | ||
Economic History | Burma | This file is available for downloading without charge in WordPerfect 5.1 ASCII, and Adobe Acrobat readable (*.pdf) FORMATS. (references) |
Burma | For Internet access, the address for use with the World Wide Web (Home Page), Telnet, or FTP protocol is: fedbbs.access.gpo.gov. The document is also accessible for downloading in ASCII format without charge from Treasury's Electronic Library ("TEL") in the "Business, Trade and Labor Mall" of the FedWorld bulletin board. (references) | |
Burma | Additional information concerning the programs of the Office of Foreign Assets Control is available for downloading from the Office's Internet Home Page: http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/services/fac/fac.htrnl, or in fax form through the Office's 24-hour fax-on-demand service: call 202/622/0077 using a fax machine, fax modem, or (within the United States) a touch-tone telephone. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Marc Klaas | You know, downloading child pornography onto your computer is not only an abhorrent lifestyle, but it's also a felony in California. |
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| "DOWNLOADING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOWNLOADING" is used about 7 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 (-ing form) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
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 "DOWNLOADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 下载 (download). (various references) | |
Danish | downloading, reducering af last. (various references) | |
Dutch | downloading (down-line load, downline loading), down line loading (down-line load, downline loading), teleladen (down-line load, downline loading). (various references) | |
Finnish | lataus (charging, loading), imurointi (down-line load, downline loading), etälataus (down-line load, downline loading). (various references) | |
French | télédéchargement (down-line load, downline loading), allègement. (various references) | |
German | Laden (boot, boot up, bootstrap, boutique, burden, charge, download, invite, joint, load, load up, loading, outfit, shop, show, shutter, store, summon, take on, to bootstrap, to download, upload). (various references) | |
Greek | μείωση φορτίου (load rejection, load shedding, load throw-off). (various references) | |
Italian | trasferimento dal sistema centrale verso i satelliti (down-line load, downline loading), riduzione del carico. (various references) | |
Korean | 데이터를 전송. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nedlasting. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ownloadingday.(various references) | |
Spanish | reducción de carga, proceso de carga por teleproceso del sistema central a los satélites (down-line load, downline loading), proceso de carga por teleproceso (down-line load, downline loading). (various references) | |
Swedish | nedladdning (down-line load, downline loading), laddning via datanätet (down-line load, downline loading). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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"DOWNLOADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dowloading. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DOWNLOADING" (pronounced dou"nlō'ding) |
| 5 | -l ō' d i ng | overloading. |
| 4 | -ō' d i ng | railroading. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-w" | |
-3 letters: dandling, dawdling, doodling, downland, download, noddling, noodling, waddling, woodland. | |
-4 letters: addling, dadoing, dagwood, dawning, dongola, downing, glonoin, gondola, landing, loading, loaning, nodding, wadding, wooding. | |
-5 letters: adding, algoid, awning, dawing, dialog, doling, dowing, gadoid, ganoid, godown, gonion, inland, lading, ladino, lagoon, lawing, ligand, logion, longan, looing, lowing, ogdoad, owning, wading, waling, waning, wanion, wooing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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