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▪ I. upˈdate, v. orig. U.S.
[up- 4; cf. up to date, up-to-date advb. phr.]
trans. a. To bring (information, esp. written material or material recorded in some other form) up to date.
1948Time 11 Oct. 22/1 [The speech] had been corrected and updated after last-minute teletype reports from..Paris. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 155/2 He would streamline the production, add a chorus of dancing girls, update the lyrics, and upjazz the music. 1962C. Walsh From Utopia to Nightmare 12 All current allusions have been ‘updated’ (as of early 1962). 1979Ottawa Law Rev. XI. 815 The entry for ‘Hudson's Bay Company’ needs to be updated.
b. To supply (a person) with the most recent information; to bring (a person) up to date.
1952N.Y. Herald-Tribune 14 Mar. 21/2 He updated me on a couple of gimmicks. 1970J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers 7 The book will have appeal, too, to the older hand, allowing him to become quickly updated without the task of researching into piles of technical literature. 1975Sunday Times 16 Nov. 44/4 No doubt I'll update myself in a few weeks and emerge as a real Seventies mum.
c. Of equipment, processes, etc.
1959Listener 4 June 998/1 This prescience has now been ‘up-dated’, as they say, by reference to nuclear warfare. 1970Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Feb. 7/2 Despite..updating the equipment to include new freezing facilities..this [whaling] venture also folded. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Oct. 45/1 To update the ‘dirty test tube’ analogy, the effects of the contaminants have been estimated and found to be minor. 1984Daily Mail 1 Dec. 14/1 (Advt.) This way, you can update your equipment whenever you want.
Also upˈdated ppl. a.; upˈdating vbl. n.
Quot. 1910 is an isolated early British example.
1910Hardy Satires of Circumstance (1914) 222 Your up-dated modern page. 1954Newsweek 27 Sept. 58/1 The new research center is an updated transplant of the National Bureau of Standards world-wide radio investigations formerly based in Washington. 1959Spectator 31 July 134/2 Despite the up-dating and jazzy typographical treatment, one fairly quickly perceives an enduring pattern of traditional attitudes. 1974Adby & Dempster Introd. Optimization Methods iv. 96 Round-off errors in the computations of the up-dating process can lead to non-positive definitive Sk and divergence. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 672/1 The plan adopted is said to be a revised and updated version of an outline plan for the development of the economy produced in 1975.
▪ II. ˈupdate, n. orig. U.S.
[f. the vb.]
1. New information received or supplied; an updated version of something. Also, an account or report of the present state of affairs. colloq.
1967Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 804/3 Update, current information for use by a computer in order to make the calculations necessary for achieving a particular goal. 1970N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon v. 116 When you're ready to copy..I've got a couple of small flight plan updates. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch ix. 92 Thanks for the update. Keep on it. 1976Physics Bull. July 313/2 Quarterly updates are available for each course. 1977H. Greene FSO-1 xiii. 119 One of his people will..give you a full update on related problems. 1983Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Aug. 417/1 The editors of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine have bridged the gap between the 9th and 10th editions with a series of up⁓dates. 1984Miami Herald 6 Apr. 11d/1 An embarrassing update of the 1960s comedy filmed on Fort Lauderdale Beach. 1985Times 5 Jan. 17/7 The new album is a high⁓grade Motown update, funky, sleek and packed with potential hits.
2. The action or result of updating; the supplying of new information, data, etc. Freq. in Computers.
1968Amer. Documentation Jan. 75/1 Thus, interrogations, extractions and updates can be based upon items or subitems, but not upon units smaller than these. 1972Computer Jrnl. XV. 191/2 The effect, of course, is to put the clock back to the time of the last dump and all updates made since then must be repeated. 1976Gramophone Aug. 353/3 Such ‘updates’ as they are called, involve switching individual tracks of the tape from the ‘read’ to the ‘write’ mode. 1982ICL News No. 96. 5/1 A pre-Conference session..was followed by an overall update and presentations on latest versions of data management software.
3. attrib.
1969Sunday Times 13 July 13/2 Update pad, information on spacecraft attitudes, and other data, transmitted to the crew in standard format. 1972Computers & Humanities VII. 127 Working with this printout, the editor prepares data for the update module in which insignificant variants are deleted and citations added. 1983Word Ways Nov. 197 It..is supplemented by update lists which the computer automatically generates. |