UPLOAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upload mean? 

• UPLOAD (verb)
  The verb UPLOAD has 1 sense:

1. transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location

  Familiarity information: UPLOAD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPLOAD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they upload    ... he / she / it uploads   
Past simple: uploaded   
Past participle: uploaded   
-ing form: uploading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "upload" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

download (transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location)

 Context examples 

Another batch of 2017 Kepler data was recently uploaded to Exoplanet Explorers for citizen scientists to peer through.

(Multi-planet System Found Through Crowdsourcing, NASA)

It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)