different between packer vs unpack

English

Etymology

From Middle English pakker, pakkere, packare, equivalent to pack +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæk?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæk?/
• Rhymes: -æk?(?)
• Hyphenation: pack?er

Noun

packer (plural packers)

1. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation

   He works as a pork packer.

   a household goods packer

   When his back problems kept him from lifting furniture, his skill as a packer kept him employed.

2. (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
3. (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
4. (LGBT) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
5. (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
6. (dated) A kind of trunk for luggage.

Derived terms

• fudge packer

Translations

Anagrams

• repack

Middle English

Noun

packer

1. Alternative form of pakker

English

Etymology

From un- +? pack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?pæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Verb

unpack (third-person singular simple present unpacks, present participle unpacking, simple past and past participle unpacked)

2. (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.

   They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.

3. (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.

   They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.

5. (transitive) To analyze a concept or a text.
6. (linguistics, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
   • 2000, in Language, volume 76, issues 1-2, page 337:

     The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/?] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, [...]

   • 2008, Katrin Dohlus, The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation, page 73

     Whereas the high vowels /?, y/ unpack, the mid vowels /œ, ø/ are adapted as single segments in these languages (see examples in (36) for Vietnamese (Barker 1969) and (37) for Fon (Gbeto 2000)). [...]

     French /y/ ? Vietnamese /wi/

     accu [a'ky] ? ac-quy [ak kwi]

   • 2011, John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu (editors), The Handbook of Phonological Theory:

     The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them.

7. (computing, transitive) To decompress.
   • 2005, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Matt Welsh, Running Linux

     Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command […]

Antonyms

• pack

Translations

See also

• unpack on Wikipedia.Wikipedia