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drop box

Dropbox

(1) (drop box) A folder used as a staging area. For example, in iMovie on the Mac, videos dragged to the drop box will be imported the next time the application is run.

(2) A popular cloud storage service from Dropbox, Inc. (www.dropbox.com) that is used to transfer abd synchronize files between desktop and mobile devices. Introduced in 2008, Dropbox is available in free and paid versions. After installing the Dropbox client application in their computers, users drag files into their "My Dropbox" folder, which become available in the My Dropbox folders of other machines and designated users. Files can be kept private or made public, allowing anyone with Internet access and a Web browser to download them. See cloud storage.
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drop box

An electric outlet box hung from above, as in a theater stagehouse where it is fed by a cable from the overhead gridiron.
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According to Lorenzo Zuniga, president of the League of Barangay Captains in Laguna, said protecting the tipster's 'anonymity' would be a problem when he or she submitted sensitive information through a drop box.
You can put your ballot in an official elections drop box of a county in which you are not a resident, and it still will be counted.
According to press release the wall mountable complaint boxes are being placed at these offices so that investors wishing to make complaints with the SECP can lodge their complaints using drop box facility.
As an example of tight temperature control, Meuret says foamed parts can be made without the assistance of a drop box. This is accomplished by using a mixture of neat resin and resin blended with foaming agent.
* Dropping a check with coupon in the property tax drop box, which is available 24 hours a day.
During floor deliberations on the DILG's budget, representatives of the agency and the PNP told the senators that they were amenable in scrapping the 'Tokhang Drop Box' following a plea from Sen.
Main St., or in the newspapers after-hours drop box.
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) have said that they are 'willing to drop' the controversial 'Tokhang Drop Box.'
If you want your vote to be among the counted, you'll need to deliver your ballot to the county elections office on West 10th Avenue in Eugene or to one of 20 official drop boxes in the county - or to any official drop box in another county - by 8 p.m.
Main St., or in the newspaper's after-hours drop box.
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