Noun: download
| Singular | download |
| Plural | downloads |
Sample Sentences
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The download took longer than I expected.
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I got the download but it wouldn't work on my computer.
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The blue sites will be blocked on all school computers, and no email or instant messaging will be set up or permitted. These student computers would strictly be for school use. Teachers will be able to request downloads from students' jumpdrives. [2007, Barbara Ellen Harris, I Am So Pissed!:]
Nouns inflected like download
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From down- + load. Verbal form first appears c. 1962 in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times. Nominal form first appears c. 1977 in Scientific American.
Verbs referencing "download"
Dutch Nouns
download, Italian Nouns
download, German Nouns
Download.