airdrop
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A wireless way to send files between nearby devices
- noun
- /ˈɛrˌdrɒp/
- Texting
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AirDrop
- You can easily share documents using AirDrop to quickly send them between devices.
And after we filmed with Don, Don was trying to send me some photographs of us and we're trying to do the AirDrop thing and the AirDrop doesn't work.
- And after we filmed with Don, Don was trying to send me some photographs of us and we're trying to do the AirDrop thing and the AirDrop doesn't work.
Examples
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My new neighbor was using AirDrop to move some files from his phone to his iMac.
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You do know what AirDrop is, right?
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Of course, I know what AirDrop is.
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For those of you who don't know, AirDrop is a file transferring system that only Apple devices have and it's lightning fast.
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To send a photo to his friend, he selected AirDrop from the sharing options on his phone.
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Etymology
AirDrop comes from the words air and drop, imagining you 'drop' a file through the air from one device to another. That image explains the name: the feature sends files without wires from one nearby device to another.