verb / noun · neutral
download
UK/daʊnˈləʊd/US/daʊnˈloʊd/down·LOAD
Band 4-5speakingtask1
To transfer a file from a remote system to a local device / the act of doing this
Examples
“I need to download the PDF before the meeting.”
“The download took only a few minutes.”
“You can download the app for free.”
Band 8 sentence
“I downloaded the lecture slides before the seminar so I could review them offline.”
Collocations
- download a file
- download an app
- fast download
Word family
download verb / noundownloads noun (plural)downloadable adjective
Common mistakes
I download the file yesterday.→I downloaded the file yesterday.
I will download it to my phone from online.→I will download it to my phone.
Say it for a higher band
5get→6save→7+download
Synonyms
save (from the web)
get
Easily confused
upload
“Please upload the photos to the shared drive.”
install
“After you download the program, install it on your computer.”
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