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Generate vs Download - What's the difference?

generate | download |

As verbs the difference between generate and download

is that generate is to bring into being; give rise to while download is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To transfer (computer data, especially as one or more files) from a remote computer (server) to a local computer, usually via a network.

As a noun download is

a file transfer to the local computer, especially one in progress.

generate

English

Verb

(generat)
  • To bring into being; give rise to.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=Jonathan Wilson, work=the Guardian
  • , title= Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , passage=In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
  • To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
  • To procreate, beget.
  • (mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
  • To appear or occur; be generated.
  • * 1883 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Three Strangers)
  • Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.

    Synonyms

    * (to bring into being) create

    Antonyms

    * (to bring into being) annihilate, extinguish * (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process) erase

    Anagrams

    * ----

    download

    English

    (Download)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A file transfer to the local computer, especially one in progress.
  • The download took longer than I expected.
  • A file that has been, or will be transferred in this way.
  • I got the download but it wouldn't work on my computer.

    Derived terms

    * DL , dl , (abbreviation)

    Antonyms

    * upload

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transfer (computer data, especially as one or more files) from a remote computer (server) to a local computer, usually via a network.
  • You can download a trial version of the program for thirty days to determine whether you want to purchase the full version.
  • upload; to copy a file from a local computer to a remote computer via a network.
  • to transfer a file to or from removable media.
  • I needed to download photos to a CD-ROM
  • to install software.
  • Synonyms

    * copy * move * take * transfer * DL , dl , (abbreviation)

    Antonyms

    * upload

    Derived terms

    * downloader

    Descendants

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    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----