Uploaded

How to spell uploaded

8 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce uploaded

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does uploaded mean?

1. verbTransferred data such as a file or image from a local device to a server, website, or network.

Uploaded in a sentence

• She uploaded the report to the shared drive before the meeting.

• The photographer uploaded all the wedding photos to the client's gallery.

Where does uploaded come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is a thoroughly modern compound built from two very old native English pieces. The first part, 'up', is the ancient Old English 'up' or 'uppe', meaning toward a higher place, used here in the computing sense of sending data 'up' to a central server or network. The second part, 'load', descends from the Old English 'lad', which originally meant a way, a course, or a carrying, and it shares an ancestor with 'lode' (as in 'lodestar') and the verb 'lade', to put cargo on board. The verb 'upload' was coined in the world of computing in the 1970s as the natural opposite of 'download', and it spread quickly with the rise of the internet. The form 'uploaded' is simply the regular past tense, formed by adding '-ed', and the spelling trap is mild: writers must remember the single 'p' and the single 'l' where the two words join.

How the word is built

• up- (upward, to a server)
• load (from Old English lad: a carrying, a burden)
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)