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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.

Synonyms

  • Unlade
  • Unload

Hypernyms

  • Empty

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.
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