uploads

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of upload.

   The server stores all of the day's uploads in a single archive.

   Failed uploads are queued for a second attempt automatically.

   Note

   Each transfer counts as one upload, so the noun takes numbers and quantifiers freely: three uploads, failed uploads, the day's uploads. Because the noun names the act of sending, the plural often stands for what was sent as well. A server can store its uploads as readily as it logs them. It shares its spelling with the present-tense verb, and only the surrounding grammar tells them apart.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of upload.

   Each camera uploads its footage to the cloud as soon as recording stops.

   The editor uploads the finished article before the morning deadline.

   Note

   The present-tense form that agrees with he, she, it or a singular noun: the camera uploads, but I upload and they upload. It works with or without an object, so a phone uploads photos, or simply uploads overnight. In Canadian usage it can also mean that one level of government hands an asset or service, along with responsibility for it, up to a higher one.

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