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Hly2004 Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

update/upgrade

What's the difference between the two words?

Thank you in advance!
  

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update verb 1 to make something more modern or suitable for use now by adding new information or changing its design: an updated version of the software 2 to give someone the most recent information: We'll update you on this news story throughout the day. upgrade verb to improve the quality or usefulness of something, such as a machine or a computer program, or give a person a more important job or state that their job is more important than it was in the past: It's quite simple to upgrade the indexing software. Congratulations, I hear you've been upgraded to divisional manager.

— Vince

  • update verb 1 to make something more modern or suitable for use now by adding new information or changing its design: an updated version of the software 2 to give someone the most recent information: We'll update you on this news story throughout the day.
  • upgrade verb to improve the quality or usefulness of something, such as a machine or a computer program, or give a person a more important job or state that their job is more important than it was in the past: It's quite simple to upgrade the indexing software.
  • Congratulations, I hear you've been upgraded to divisional manager.
  • A dictionary does wonders...
  • When talking about computers, I don't think there's a real difference, save that 'update' is more common.
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update verb
1 to make something more modern or suitable for use now by adding new information or changing its design:
an updated version of the software

2 to give someone the most recent information:
We'll update you on this news story throughout the day.


upgrade verb
to improve the quality or usefulness of something, such as a machin
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Vince has just explained about update and upgrade. I'll give some examples to make the meaning clearly. Ex:: Good news: They'll come back home early{ tomorrow }for Tet holidays It's update news. She learns obstetrics in an upgrade class in the famous hospital in the city.

Phuong Ninh
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As far as I know, when dealing with computers, you use "update" when talking about the software and "upgrade" when talking about the hardware.

Hope this helps.

[Y]
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I think my software boxes are all marked "upgrade", actually...

MrP
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Thank you all! I think I got it,

"upgrade" means "improve to a particular level of rank of somthing"

"update" implies "upgrade to the most current version"

For example:

an upgraded software implies "major functions have been added"

while "update" implies "some patches against the virus found lately"

Just my 2 cents.

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That sounds good, Hly.

Every year, I buy my anti-virus "upgrade"; but during the year, I download "updates" from the website.

MrP
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