upload

Formsuploads, uploading, uploaded

Pluraluploads

1. 1
   verbtransitive or intransitive

   To send files, like photos or videos, from your phone or computer to the internet.

   Like putting a letter in a mailbox: the letter leaves you and travels somewhere else.

   You can upload your homework to the class website before midnight.

   The video is still uploading, so please wait a minute.

   Similartransfer, send, post, submit

   Oppositedownload

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   The act of sending a file from your phone or computer to the internet or another computer.

   The upload took a long time because the video was so big.

   After three failed uploads, he tried again with a faster internet connection.

   Similartransfer

   Oppositedownload

3. 3
   verbCanadatransitive

   To move control of a public service or property to a higher level of government.

   Like handing a heavy bag up to someone bigger so they carry it instead of you.

   The mayor wants to upload the bus system to the regional government.

   Last year the town uploaded its water service to the county.

   Similartransfer

   Oppositedownload, devolve

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