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🌐 A file transfer protocol 📤 To send files
to FTP

to FTP

5.5
To send files from one computer to another over a network
  • verb
  • /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
  • Specialized
translation icon : transferir
  • 5) Understand what WordPress is and have the knowledge to go grab it, unzip it, and FTP it to your new domain on your new host (FTP... don't all businessmen know what FTP is?)

Examples

  • To share the project files, make sure to FTP them to the designated server.

  • And if you upload files to your own server, what you want to do is isolate on a virtual machine, do your FTP or SCP through there if you're running Windows.

  • My preference in publishing help material is to give developers a URL that points to a server where I can FTP my help files at will.

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  • You can use your computer to FTP large files to a remote server easily.

  • He decided to FTP the updated documents before the deadline.

Synonyms

to upload
vsto FTP
179 3.2

To send a file from your computer to the internet or a server

moves files between computers in both directions

Compounds

anonymous FTP
  • Specialized
5.1

A way to get files from an FTP server by logging in as a guest without a personal account

Surface Forms

FTP infinitive
FTPed past
FTPed past participle
FTPing present participle
FTPs third person singular

Morphology

FTP = file + transfer + protocol (semi-transparent) = F + T + P

The verb sense derives from the initialism of 'File Transfer Protocol' and thus its action meaning is clear if the expansion is known. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]

Etymology

FTP as a verb comes from the same name: to FTP a file means 'to use FTP to move' it from one computer to another, much like 'upload' or 'send'.