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# upload

«upload» in Mova's school dictionary: **To send a file, photo or video from your device to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (upload, uploads, uploaded, uploading); noun (an upload, uploads)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To send a file, photo or video from your device to the internet or to another computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#m1)

2) (noun) A file that has been uploaded, or the act of uploading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In computing lessons upload is the opposite of download: download brings things to your device, upload sends them away. Online safety lessons teach to think before you upload: photos and posts can stay online for ever and strangers might see them. Teachers ask pupils to upload homework to a class website. Phrases: upload a photo, upload to the cloud, upload speed.

### examples

- Upload your homework to the class page by Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#x1)
- The video is still uploading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#x2)
- Ask a parent before you upload a photo of yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#x3)
- Once you upload something, it can be hard to delete. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#x4)
- My upload speed is much slower than my download speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#x5)
- She uploaded her drawing to the art competition website. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/#x6)

### note

Past: uploaded. Opposite: download. Safety: never upload your address, school name or private photos; once online, copies may stay for ever. In maths: upload time = file size ÷ upload speed.

### In the corpora

- [What you type or upload may be stored by a company you have never met.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/1/)
- [Ask a grown-up before uploading any photo, and never upload ones showing your school badge or home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «upload» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upload/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.