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verb

offload

transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data

In a sentence

Six example sentences with offload, each labelled with its topic.

  • Once the console warns that storage is nearly full, players offload finished campaigns onto an external drive and keep saves.

    Gaming

  • After a long shoot in the desert, she will offload every memory card onto a rugged portable drive before dinner.

    Photography

  • The lab rig fills its buffer within minutes, so technicians offload raw telemetry to a tape unit each hour.

    Science

  • When the laptop's drive fills up, the backup tool offloads last year's project folders to an external disk and leaves a shortcut behind.

    Technology

  • On set the data wrangler offloads each camera card to two drives before the card goes back to the operator.

    Movies

  • After the session the engineer offloaded all forty takes to a backup drive that lived in a different building.

    Music

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