English
Noun
update (plural updates)
- An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
- He gave me an update on the situation in New York
- A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.
- I just made an update to the Wikipedia article on guerillas
- An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information.
- I just made an update to my blog about my trip to Rome
- A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
- Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM
- I have a couple of updates to install on your laptop
- A version of something which is newer than other versions.
- "You should try the update: it rocks."
Translations
action of making something up to date
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- Italian: aggiornamento (it) m, attualizzazione (it)
- Japanese: 更新 (ja) (こうしん, kōshin), アップデート (ja) (appudēto)
- Korean: 갱신 (gaengsin), 업데이트 (eopdeiteu)
- Malay: kemas kini, kemaskinian
- Maori: whakahāngai
- Norwegian: ajourføring
- Polish: aktualizacja (pl) f, uaktualnienie
- Portuguese: atualização f (Brazil), actualização f (Portugal)
- Romanian: actualizare (ro) f
- Russian: обновле́ние (ru) n (obnovlénije), актуализа́ция (ru) f (aktualizácija), апде́йт (ru) m (apdɛ́jt)
- Serbo-Croatian: ažuriranje n, aktualizacija (sh) f
- Slovene: posodobitev, aktualizacija
- Spanish: actualización (es) f
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action of advising someone so that they are up to date
Verb
update (third-person singular simple present updates, present participle updating, simple past and past participle updated)
- (transitive) To bring (a thing) up to date.
- I need to update my records to take account of the most recent transaction.
- (transitive) To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.
- Update me on what happened while I was away.
Translations
to make something up to date
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- Japanese: 更新する (ja) (こうしんする, kōshin suru), アップデートする (ja) (appudēto suru)
- Malay: mengemaskinikan
- Maori: whakahāngai
- Mongolian: шинэчлэх (mn) (šinečleh)
- Polish: aktualizować impf, zaktualizować pf, uaktualnić pf
- Portuguese: atualizar (Brazil), actualizar (Portugal)
- Romanian: actualiza (ro)
- Russian: обновля́ть (ru) impf (obnovljátʹ), обнови́ть (ru) pf (obnovítʹ), актуализировать (ru) (aktualizirovat')
- Serbo-Croatian: ažurirati (sh), nadograditi (sh), aktualizirati (sh)
- Slovene: aktualizirati, posodobiti
- Spanish: actualizar (es)
- Swedish: uppdatera (sv)
- Vietnamese: cập nhật
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to advise a person so that they are up to date
- French: mettre au courant
- Greek: ενημερώνω (el) (enimeróno)
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Descendants
French
Verb
update
- first-person singular present indicative of updater
- third-person singular present indicative of updater
- first-person singular present subjunctive of updater
- first-person singular present subjunctive of updater
- second-person singular imperative of updater
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