File transfer is the movement of one or more files from one location to another. A collection of electronically-stored files can be moved by physically moving the electronic storage medium, such as a computer diskette, hard disk, or compact disk from one place to another or by sending the files over a telecommunications medium. On the Internet, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a common way to transfer a single file or a relatively small number of files from one computer to another. For larger file transfers (a single large file or a large collection of files), file compression and aggregation into a single archive is commonly used. (A zip file is a popular implemention.) Source: searchNetworking.com - http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/

"Download" and "upload" are commonly used to denote file transfer as well as "ftp" (used as a noun and verb) even though these are technically not interchangeable terms.

Save Files to an FTP Site of Your Choice
If you're an experienced user of FTP and you have a site you want to save to, you need to know only the following:

1. You should save your files on this computer to the C:\Temp\Save Directory.
2. When you open FTP Explorer, fill in the boxes as instructed in the "Description" box at the bottom of the dialog screen.
   
3. Click on the arrow in the title bar.