What's the difference between download and torrent?

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.

Torrent


Definition:

  • (n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
  • (n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
  • (n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
  • (2) Many correspondents joined in a torrent of condemnation on Twitter.
  • (3) It sits on two slender cables that stretch across the torrent 10 metres below.
  • (4) BT and Sky have now implemented the latest load of changes, preventing direct access for their subscribers (although the blocks are easily circumvented by users with a VPN), but BT has gone one step further and blocked access to other torrent sites as well.
  • (5) There was this thing called the Lima Paris Action Agenda where hundreds of businesses and thousands of regions and cities made promises to cut emissions that streamed into my email inbox in a torrent.
  • (6) He said many of the businesses in the old town centre had fared better than they had feared, but some had been flooded and that on one street by the church the water was flowing "like a torrent, 18 inches high".
  • (7) One resident in nearby Walsden was swept along about 15 metres by the torrent.
  • (8) In fact, no UK ISP has ever blocked a private torrent site before.” Barack Obama’s support for net neutrality sets precedent for the rest of the world • The headline, subheading and caption on this article were amended on 28 November.
  • (9) After entering PayPal or credit card details the user is given a Torrent file.
  • (10) The Pakistani Taliban have reacted to the torrent of negative media coverage after their attempt to assassinate a 14-year-old schoolgirl by threatening journalists.
  • (11) North Korea has in recent weeks conducted a string of artillery drills and missile tests, and has unleashed a torrent of racist and sexist rhetoric against the leaders of the US and South Korea.
  • (12) A graduate of Syracuse University, he was coming towards the end of a coast-to-coast cycle ride across America which he was making with his friend Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent.
  • (13) Rodriguez-Torrent escaped injury, but their host was struck by a pellet that entered her naval cavity and transversed her brain, lodging at the back of her skull.
  • (14) A further two people have died in flooding in eastern Romania, including a man who was ripped from his bicycle by a torrent of water in the eastern village of Ruginesti.
  • (15) The clumsy attempt to smear Navalny provoked a torrent of scorn online from his supporters.
  • (16) ‘Please look again’: a torrent of mysterious evidence makes its way to Lathierial Boyd Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boyd had an alibi in a club shooting.
  • (17) The retinal organisation of a cyprinid fish, Crossocheilus latius latius Hamilton, which inhabits the sub-Himalayan torrents of Sikkim, India, has been studied by light microscopy.
  • (18) Again, it looks simple, but in his delivery, in its immediacy and its signalling of the torrent of rhymes that are about to come, it’s one of the greatest opening couplets in the whole of hip-hop, and it still reverberates through global culture as such.
  • (19) It is all too easy to feel defeated by the sheer scale of the blurred torrent of information unleashed on the world.
  • (20) Speaking to the Guardian via telephone he said that he had left the country after the coup attempt last Friday because he started to receive a torrent of violent threats via social media, including threats of rape and death threats.