Meanings
plural downloads · alternative DL · alternative dl · alternative d/l · alternative D/L
- A file that has been or is intended to be transferred in this way.
I got the download but it wouldn't work on my computer.
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The blue sites will be blocked on all school computers, and no email or instant messaging will be set up or permitted. These student computers would strictly be for school use. Teachers will be able to request downloads from students' jumpdrives.
2007, Barbara Ellen Harris, I Am So Pissed!
present singular third person downloads · participle present downloading · participle past downloaded · past downloaded · alternative DL · alternative dl · alternative d/l · alternative D/L
- transitivecomputingTo transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.
You can download a trial version of the program for thirty days to determine whether you want to purchase the full version.
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You can download Google's deskbar for free […]
2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179Voiceover: You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing. If you do it you WILL face the consequences. Roy: Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.
2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3Finally, some e-content must first be downloaded to a computer before being transferred to a tablet or other mobile device for viewing.
2012, Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang, Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets, page 38With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.
2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The GuardianThat original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.
2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business - transitiveengineeringTo load a gun (especially a muzzle-loader) with less propellant than its designed load.
- CanadatransitiveTo transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a lower level of government.
In 1997, The Harris government also downloaded a number of social services to municipal governments, including affordable housing.
Allister Thompson ((Can we date this quote?)), “Mike Harris”, in The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Canadian Encyclopedia, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2023 - ergativeintransitiveTo be downloaded
Don't close this window, your chats are dowloading.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of upload: to send data from a given computer to a remote one.
verbSynonym of copy: to transfer data to or from removable media.
verbSynonym of install: to load software forced.
More synonyms by meaning
verbtransfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic تَنْزِيل, نَزَّلَ
- تَنْزِيل (tanzīl)file transfer to the local computer
- نَزَّلَ (nazzala)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Bengali ডাউনলোড, ডাউনলোড করা
- ডাউনলোড (ḍaunlōḍ)file transfer to the local computer
- ডাউনলোড করা (ḍaunlōḍ kora)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Bulgarian свалям
- свалям (svaljam)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Catalan baixada, baixar
- baixadafile transfer to the local computer
- baixarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- descarregarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Chinese Cantonese 下載 /下载
- 下載 /下载 (haa⁶ zoi³)file transfer to the local computer
Chinese Mandarin 下載 /下载, 下載 /下载
- 下載 /下载 (xiàzǎi)file transfer to the local computer
- 下載 /下载 (xiàzǎi)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Czech stažení, stahování
- staženífile transfer to the local computer
- stahovánífile transfer to the local computer
- stáhnoutto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- stahovatto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Danish nedlagre, downloade
- nedlagreto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- downloadeto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- henteto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Dutch download, downloaden
- downloadfile transfer to the local computer
- downloadento transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- afladento transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- binnenhalento transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- binnenladento transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Esperanto elŝuti, malenretigi
- elŝutifile transfer to the local computer
- malenretigifile transfer to the local computer
- elŝutito transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Estonian alla laadima, tõmbama
- alla laadimato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- tõmbamato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Finnish lataus, imurointi
- latausfile transfer to the local computer
- imurointifile transfer to the local computer
- ladatato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- imuroidato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- imuttaato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
French téléchargement, télécharger
- téléchargementfile transfer to the local computer
- téléchargerto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
German Download, Herunterladen
- Downloadfile transfer to the local computer
- Herunterladenfile transfer to the local computer
- herunterladento transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- downloadento transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Greek καταφόρτωση, κατεβάζω
- καταφόρτωση (katafórtosi)file transfer to the local computer
- κατεβάζω (katevázo)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Hebrew הוֹרָדָה, הוריד
- הוֹרָדָה (horadá)file transfer to the local computer
- הוריד (horíd)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Hindi डाउनलोड, अवचयन
- डाउनलोड (ḍāunloḍ)file transfer to the local computer
- अवचयन (avacyan)file transfer to the local computer
- अवाहरण (avāhraṇ)file transfer to the local computer
- अवारोपण (avāropaṇ)file transfer to the local computer
- उतारना (utārnā)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- अवारोपण (avāropaṇ)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- अवाहरण (avāhraṇ)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- अवचयन (avacyan)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Hungarian letöltés, letölt
- letöltésfile transfer to the local computer
- letöltto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Icelandic niðurhal, niðurhala
- niðurhalfile transfer to the local computer
- niðurhalato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- hlaða niðurto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Indonesian unduhan, sedot
- unduhanfile transfer to the local computer
- sedotfile transfer to the local computer
- mengunduhto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Irish íoslódáil, íoslódáil
- íoslódáilfile transfer to the local computer
- íoslódáilto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- lódáil anuasto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Italian download, scaricamento
- downloadfile transfer to the local computer
- scaricamentofile transfer to the local computer
- scaricareto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Japanese ダウンロード, ダウンロードする
- ダウンロード (daunrōdo)file transfer to the local computer
- ダウンロードする (daunrōdo suru)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Korean 다운로드, 다운
- 다운로드 (daunnodeu)file transfer to the local computer
- 다운 (daun)file transfer to the local computer
- 내려받기 (naeryeobatgi)file transfer to the local computer
- 다운로드하다 (daunnodeuhada)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- 다운로드받다 (daunnodeubatda)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- 다운받다 (daunbatda)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- 내려받다 (naeryeobatda)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Lithuanian parsiuntimas, atsisiuntimas
- parsiuntimasfile transfer to the local computer
- atsisiuntimasfile transfer to the local computer
- atsisiųstito transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Malay muat turun, muat turun
- muat turunfile transfer to the local computer
- muat turunto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Norwegian nedlastning, laste ned
- nedlastningfile transfer to the local computer
- laste nedto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- nedlasteto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Persian دانلود, بارگیری
- دانلودfile transfer to the local computer
- بارگیری (bârgiri)file transfer to the local computer
Polish pobieranie, pobierać
- pobieraniefile transfer to the local computer
- pobieraćto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- pobraćto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- ściągaćto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- ściągnąćto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Portuguese download, descarregamento
- downloadfile transfer to the local computer
- descarregamentofile transfer to the local computer
- descarregarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- baixarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- fazer downloadto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- sacarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Romanian descărcare, descărca
- descărcarefile transfer to the local computer
- descărcato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Russian ска́чивание, ска́чка
- ска́чивание (skáčivanije)file transfer to the local computer
- ска́чка (skáčka)file transfer to the local computer
- даунло́уд (daunlóud)file transfer to the local computer
- ска́чивать (skáčivatʹ)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- кача́ть (kačátʹ)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- скача́ть (skačátʹ)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Scottish Gaelic luchdaich a-nuas
- luchdaich a-nuasto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Spanish descarga, transferencia directa
- descargafile transfer to the local computer
- transferencia directafile transfer to the local computer
- bajadafile transfer to the local computer
- bajamiento cibernéticofile transfer to the local computer
- ciberbajamientofile transfer to the local computer
- descargarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- bajarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- bajar cibernéticamenteto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- ciberbajarto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Swahili pakua
- pakuato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Swedish nedladdning, nerladdning
- nedladdningfile transfer to the local computer
- nerladdningfile transfer to the local computer
- ladda nerto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- ladda hemto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- tanka nerto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- tanka hemto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- tankato transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- dra nerto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- dra hemto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- ta hemto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- plocka hemto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Tamil பதிவிறக்கம், டவுன்லோட்
- பதிவிறக்கம் (pativiṟakkam)file transfer to the local computer
- டவுன்லோட் (ṭavuṉlōṭ)file transfer to the local computer
- பதிவிறக்கு (pativiṟakku)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- டவுன்லோட் பண்ணு (ṭavuṉlōṭ paṇṇu)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Thai ดาวน์โหลด, ดาวน์โหลด
- ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)file transfer to the local computer
- ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Turkish indirme, indirmek
- indirmefile transfer to the local computer
- indirmekto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Ukrainian заванта́ження, заванта́жувати
- заванта́ження (zavantážennja)file transfer to the local computer
- заванта́жувати (zavantážuvaty)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- заванта́жити (zavantážyty)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- ска́чувати (skáčuvaty)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- скача́ти (skačáty)to transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Urdu ڈاؤنلوڈ
- ڈاؤنلوڈ (ḍāunloḍ)file transfer to the local computer
Vietnamese sự tải xuống, sự truyền xuống
- sự tải xuốngfile transfer to the local computer
- sự truyền xuốngfile transfer to the local computer
- sự nạp xuốngfile transfer to the local computer
- sự viễn nạpfile transfer to the local computer
- tảito transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- tải xuốngto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- tải vềto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
Welsh lawrlwythiad, lawrlwytho
- lawrlwythiadfile transfer to the local computer
- lawrlwythoto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
- llwytho i lawrto transfer data from a remote computer to a local one
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Cite this entry
download. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/download
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