What's the difference between download and load?

Download


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
  • (2) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
  • (3) Thoughtful use of downloadable content provided depth too.
  • (4) Pono – a portable music player with its own digital store selling high-resolution downloads – has raised $6.1m on Kickstarter , in a campaign that ends later today (15 April).
  • (5) It said almost 120,000 template letters to help consumers challenge banks on overdraft charges were downloaded from the watchdog's website last year.
  • (6) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
  • (7) Recent research has shown that more than two-thirds of internet users would ignore warning letters, and with more than 6 million internet users in Britain regularly downloading illegally copied music and films, the media industry believes so-called "technical measures", such as ­slowing down broadband connections, should be introduced before the courts system is clogged up with thousands of lawsuits.
  • (8) The effects of illegal downloading hit the country particularly early and hard, while legal downloading never got a chance to establish a foothold.
  • (9) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (10) has been topping download charts across Europe since its surprise release on Tuesday morning, and now could become his fourth solo No 1, and his first since Let's Dance in 1983.
  • (11) Mandelson, who today unveiled plans to introduce measures including suspending the internet connections of illegal downloaders , argued that while less draconian than the French plan, the UK's approach would be tough enough to tackle online piracy.
  • (12) A spokeswoman for the Tories said that the Digital Economy Act, which could see could see persistent illegal downloaders have their internet connections suspended or websites that host copyrighted content blocked , had been pushed through in the "wash-up" last week and that not all Tory policies were outlined in the manifesto.
  • (13) Twitter also lets you download an archive of your data, mostly made up of your Tweets.
  • (14) Some 14.24 million people had access to the internet at home and there was a 59% increase in internet downloads during the June quarter of 2013 compared with the June quarter of 2012.
  • (15) Content in the app is a mixture of episode descriptions, quizzes, tweets, cast information and playable clips of every song on the soundtrack, with links to buy song downloads, TV episodes and merchandise – the latter through a partnership with e-commerce firm Delivery Agent.
  • (16) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
  • (17) Download downturn That in turn carries serious risks for the music industry, which for some time has surfed along on the iPod sales boom, warns Mark Mulligan, vice-president of the global media practice at the analysis company Forrester Research .
  • (18) With over 50,000 apps and more than 1bn downloads, it is hardly surprising that Blackberry, Nokia, Microsoft and Google have all now jumped on the app emporium bandwagon.
  • (19) I’m all about Google Glass, mate b) Download the best-reviewed book from that week’s New Review c) Dust off that Booker winner from a few years back d) Brideshead.
  • (20) Find out the accepted forms of photo ID To apply to vote by post or proxy, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form.

Load


Definition:

  • (v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.
  • (v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
  • (v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.
  • (v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.
  • (v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
  • (v.) Weight or violence of blows.
  • (v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
  • (v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.
  • (v. t.) To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.
  • (v. t.) To magnetize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
  • (2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (3) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
  • (4) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (5) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (6) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (8) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
  • (9) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
  • (10) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
  • (11) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (12) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
  • (13) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (14) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
  • (15) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
  • (16) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
  • (17) 9 Women performed plantarflexion and dorsalflexion with maximum strength and at constant load of 60% MVC to exhaustion.
  • (18) In PSS amiloride and EIPA each had a small inhibitory effect on the pH recovery after an acid load.
  • (19) Also blacks differ from whites in 2 ways that could be relevant for their increased prevalence of hypertension: they excrete sodium loads more slowly and have a markedly lower urinary kallikrein.
  • (20) Calcium loading to erythrocytes in vitro caused a greater decrease in the membrane fluidity in essential hypertension than in the normotensive controls.