download vs upload :

download or upload

Most people do far more downloading (transferring files to their computers) than uploading (transferring files from their computers), so it’s not surprising that they often use the first word for the second word’s meaning. You don’t download the video of your birthday party to YouTube—you upload it.

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Definitions

  • v  transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location

  • v  transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location
News & Articles


  • 5 million videos uploaded to Instagram in just 24 hours
    Instagram fans seem happy with their favorite app’s newfound video upload capabilities. Per CNET, the Facebook-owned Instagram said on Friday that users have uploaded 5 million videos just 24 hours after it debuted its new video-sharing feature. What’s more, Instagram said that during peak hours users uploaded around 40 hours of video per minute. Instagram’s video sharing service, which lets ...
    June 22, 2013 - BGR News via Yahoo! News
  • Instagram users upload 5M videos in first 24 hours
    Just a day after release, video sharing is already proving so popular an activity on the app that it would take you years to watch all the clips uploaded to the service.
    June 21, 2013 - CNET
  • Instagram users upload 5M clips in vid-sharing feature's first day
    Just 24 hours after its unveiling, video sharing on Instagram is already proving so popular an activity that it would take you years to watch all the clips uploaded to the service.
    June 21, 2013 - CNET