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• DL, dl, d/l, D/L

From down- +‎ load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.

• (Received Pronunciation, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈdaʊnˌləʊd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Received Pronunciation, verb) IPA^(key): /ˌdaʊnˈləʊd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaʊnˌloʊd/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, verb) -əʊd

download (plural downloads)

1. A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.

   The download took longer than I expected.

2. 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.

   • 2007, Barbara Ellen Harris, I Am So Pissed!:

     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.

• upload

download (third-person singular simple present downloads, present participle downloading, simple past and past participle downloaded)

1. (transitive, computing) To 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.

   • 2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:

     You can download Google's deskbar for free […]

   • 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3:

     Voiceover: 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.

   • 2012, Rebecca K. Miller, Carolyn Meier, Heather Moorfield-Lang, Rethinking Reference and Instruction with Tablets, page 38:

     Finally, some e-content must first be downloaded to a computer before being transferred to a tablet or other mobile device for viewing.

   • 2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian‎:

     With 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.

2. (transitive, nonstandard) Synonym of upload: to send data from a given computer to a remote one.
3. (transitive, nonstandard) Synonym of copy: to transfer data to or from removable media.

   When I was your age, there were no flash drives. I needed to download photos to a CD-ROM.

4. (transitive, nonstandard) Synonym of install: to load software forced.
5. (transitive, firearms) To load a gun (especially a muzzle-loader) with less propellant than its designed load.
6. (transitive, Canada) To transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a lower level of government. ^[1][2][3]
   • 2008, Allister Thompson, Mike Harris, The Canadian Encyclopedia:

     In 1997, The Harris government also downloaded a number of social services to municipal governments, including affordable housing. ^[4]

• copy, move, transfer

• upload

• → Danish: downloade
• → Dutch: downloaden
• → German: downloaden; herunterladen (calque)
• → Lao: ດາວໂຫຼດ (dāo lōt)
• → Malay: muat turun (calque)
• → Maltese: ddawnlowdja
• → Thai: ดาวน์โหลด (daao-lòot)

• Woodland, woodland

• 單撈 / 单捞 (daan¹ lou¹)

From English download.

download

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to download

• down (daan1)
• upload (ap1 lou1), up (ap1)

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑu̯n.loːt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: down‧load

Borrowed from English download.

download m (plural downloads, diminutive downloadje n)

1. download

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

download

1. inflection of downloaden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from English download.

download m (invariable)

1. (computing) download

Unadapted borrowing from English download.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌdaw̃ˈlo(w)d͡ʒ(i)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌdawnˈlo(w)d(ɨ)/

download m (plural downloads)

1. (computing) download (file transfer to the local computer)

   Synonym: descarregamento

Unadapted borrowing from English download.^[1]

-download (infinitive kudownload)

1. to download