verb
Meaning 1
To open something using a zipper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unzip
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
To come open by means of a zipper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uncompress, decompress
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
open the zipper of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- unzip the bag
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: zip up
Broader terms: unfasten
History
Etymology
From un- + zip.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: отварям ципа (otvarjam cipa) — to open something using a zipper
- Finnish: avata vetoketju — to open something using a zipper
- German: Reißverschluss öffnen — to open something using a zipper
- Hungarian: kicipzároz — to open something using a zipper
- Hungarian: kinyitja a cipzárját — to open something using a zipper
- Norman: dêziper — to open something using a zipper
- Spanish: bajar el síper — to open something using a zipper
- Spanish: abrir el riqui — to open something using a zipper
- Hungarian: kinyílik a cipzárja — to come open by means of a zipper
- Norman: dêziper — to come open by means of a zipper
- Bulgarian: разгъвам (razgǎvam) — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Bulgarian: разархивирам (razarhiviram) — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Catalan: descomprimir — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Chinese Mandarin: 解壓縮 /解压缩 (jiěyāsuō) — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Czech: dekomprimovat — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Finnish: purkaa — computing: to decompress a zip file
- French: décompresser — computing: to decompress a zip file
- French: dézipper — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Galician: descomprimir — computing: to decompress a zip file
- German: entpacken — computing: to decompress a zip file
- German: dekomprimieren — computing: to decompress a zip file
- German: entzippen — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Greek: αποσυμπιέζω (aposympiézo) — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Hebrew: חלץ (h'aletz) — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Hebrew: פשט (fashét) — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Hungarian: kicsomagol — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Hungarian: kibont — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Hungarian: kitömörít — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Icelandic: afþjappa — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Italian: decomprimere — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Māori: whewhera — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Norman: dêziper — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Occitan: descomprimir — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Portuguese: descomprimir — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Portuguese: descompactar — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Portuguese: deszipar — computing: to decompress a zip file
- Spanish: descomprimir — computing: to decompress a zip file