Offload (Verb)
Meaning 1
Remove the load from (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The workers were instructed to offload the cargo from the ship immediately.
- Before leaving the warehouse, make sure to offload all the boxes from the truck.
- It took an hour for the dockworkers to offload the container from the freighter.
- The crew's first task was to offload the luggage from the plane.
- Offload the packages from the delivery van before heading to the office.
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Meaning 2
Transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- To free up system resources, the operating system can offload graphics processing to the dedicated graphics card.
- The new software allowed users to offload their music library to an external hard drive for easy access.
- By offloading computations to the GPU, the program was able to run significantly faster and more efficiently.
- The network administrator configured the system to offload backups to a cloud storage service for added security.
- To improve performance, the database was configured to offload query processing to a secondary server.