Offload vs Offloading - What's the difference?
offload | offloading |
to unload
to get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else
The act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere.
* 2013 , Bertrand Dufrasne, ?Bruno Anderson Barbosa, ?Peter Cronauer, IBM System Storage DS8870 Architecture and Implementation
(rugby) The act of passing the ball to a team mate when tackled.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport
, passage=Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.}}
As verbs the difference between offload and offloading
is that offload is to unload while offloading is .As a noun offload
is the act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere.offload
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* off-loadVerb
(en verb)- He offloaded the defective car onto an unsuspecting buyer.
Noun
(en noun)- For environments that do not allow FTP traffic out to the Internet, the DS8870 also supports offload of data by using SSL security.
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