🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

descargar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: des.kaɾˈɣaɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Download/ˈdaʊn.loʊd/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Voy a descargar el documento ahora."

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To copy data from one computer system to another, typically over the internet.

    "You can download the software directly from our official website."
As noun
  1. 1

    A file or data that has been or is available to be transferred to a computer.

    "The download of the large movie file took less than two minutes."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'download' is a compound of 'down' and 'load', first used in the context of computing in the 1980s. 'Down' refers to the direction of data transfer from a remote source to a local device, while 'load' indicates the act of transferring data into a system.

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