uploadn.
/ˈʌpləʊd/, U.S. /ˈəpˌloʊd/ Computing.
1. The action of uploading data. Cf. upload v. 2.
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1979 W. H. Harbour & M. Rochette in C. T. Leondes Princ. & Operational Aspects Precision Position Determination Syst. 12 The ULS receives upload data messages from the MCS as well as additional data necessary to point the ULS antenna properly at the space vehicle (SV) selected for upload.
1984 Computerworld (Nexis) 30 Jan. 78 Features reportedly include the ability to integrate with other systems on an upload or download basis.
2002 J. Houser ColdFusion MX: Compl. Ref. xix. 349 A Boolean value stating whether or not ColdFusion overwrote a file during the upload.
2. A file or set of files which has been uploaded or is intended for uploading (now usually via the internet).
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1984 Recent YAM User's Man. in net.sources (Usenet newsgroup) 5 May Some remote systems accept uploads with a ? for each line.
1994 CompuServe Mag. Mar. 56/2 The File Cluster, consisting of uploads from various forums each searchable by the same keyword.
2009 T. Weinberg New Community Rules xi. 271 You get unlimited storage for hundreds or thousands of uploads.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
uploadv.
/ˌʌpˈləʊd/, U.S. /ˌəpˈloʊd/ 1. transitive. To load up. rare.
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1870 W. Barnes Select. from Unpubl. Poems 18 Low-headed horses slowly haul The newly-made hay, uploaded high.
1930 R. Campbell Poems 17 Equal your skill..To dig an ode, or to indite a ditch; With lumbering sonnets to upload a cart Or with a pitchfork to unload your heart.
1976 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 22 Mar. 57/1 At present most C-5/C-141 pallets have to be reconfigured prior to uploading the C-130, particularly the two pallet spaces in the wheel-well area.
2. transitive. Computing. To transfer (data, etc.) from one computer or device to another (esp. to one that is larger or remote from the user, or is functioning as a server). Cf. download v.
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1977 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 25 July 22 The joint program office..uploaded navigation data into the satellite by readjusting the phasing of the pseudo random noise signal employed for the navigation system.
1979 Microprocessors & Microsyst. Apr. 154 When the software has been tested, the user can upload this program into the Intellec memory.
1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 June 1610/1 Authors can submit brief contributions by post, or ‘upload’ them by telephone from their own microcomputers to the journal office in Lancaster.
2002 Time 21 Oct. 38/2 Formally established in 1994, CODIS is a national database into which law-enforcement officials around the country can upload DNA information about criminals.
Derivatives
upˈloaded adj. Computing
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1978 Proc. Internat. Telemetering Conf. 14 739 The ALU RAM stores the uploaded data.
2012 E. Navas in X. Burrough Net Wks. xii. 138 Anyone can become a ‘star’ on YouTube, if an uploaded video becomes viral.
upˈloader n. Computing
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1983 InfoWorld 15 Aug. 64/2 The ratio of downloaders requesting programs to the uploaders donating them is about 20 to 1.
2009 M. Macdonald Creating Website (rev. ed.) xvi. 499 The multi-video uploader makes it easy to upload several files at once.
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