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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

descargar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: des.kaɾˈɣaɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Download/ˈdaʊn.loʊd/
verbnounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #1450 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Voy a descargar el documento ahora."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

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

Derived from the combination of the adverb 'down' (from Old English 'dūne') and the verb 'load' (from Old English 'hlādan', meaning to pile up or put a cargo). The compound term emerged in the late 20th century with the advent of computer networking to describe the transfer of data from a remote computer system to a local one.

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