upload

The word “upload” means to send data from your own device to a server or another computer over a network. In plain terms, sending data out from your device to somewhere else online — the opposite of downloading.

“Upload” is pronounced uhp-LOHD (/əpˈləʊd/ in IPA).

Here is “upload” used in a sentence: “She uploaded the photos to the shared drive.”

The opposite of “upload” — its antonyms — is download.

Depending on how it is used, “upload” can be a verb and a noun.

“Upload” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.

“Upload” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: to send data from your own device to a server or another computer over a network.

Upload means to send data from your own device to a server or another computer over a network, while download means to receive data from a server onto your device. Posting a video to a sharing site is an upload; saving that video to your phone is a download.

The standard preposition is to: you upload a file to a website, a server, or the cloud. "Upload on" is heard informally, especially with social media, but "upload to" is the safer choice in careful writing.

Most home internet connections are asymmetric, meaning providers allocate more bandwidth to downloading than uploading, because typical users receive far more data than they send. Upload speed matters most when you send data, such as during video calls, cloud backups, or transferring large files to a server.