Storage vs Uploads - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
(usually, uncountable) An object or place in which something is stored.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 1, author=Staff writers, title=Fires rage as business counts cost, work=
, passage=Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.}}
* 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering ,
* 2012 , A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective'', C. A. Brebbia, ''Water Pollution XI ,
(usually, uncountable, computing) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.
* 2007 , Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology , Firewall Media, India,
(uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.
(upload)
(transitive, intransitive, computing) to transfer data or files from a peripheral or subordinate system to a larger or more central one; especially from a personal computer to an Internet server.
As nouns the difference between storage and uploads
is that storage is (uncountable) the act of storing goods; the state of being stored while uploads is .storage
English
(wikipedia storage)Noun
(en-noun)- There's a lot of storage space in the loft.
citation
page 115,
- Underground natural gas storages' are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas '''storages''' worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas '''storages''', salt-cave gas '''storages''' and aquifer ' storages .
page 187,
- Low impact storages' included the northern and southern region?s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted '''storages''' included central region?s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central '''storages''' where(sic) more than double compared to northern and southern ' storages (Fig. 2A).
- I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
page 43,
- Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.
Usage notes
The plural form appears to be more common in Australian English.Derived terms
* cloud storage * digital storageAnagrams
* *uploads
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Verb
(head)Noun
(head)upload
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Verb
(en verb)- You will have to convert your photograph to a jpg format if you wish to upload it.