different between unarm vs unarc

English

Etymology

From un- +? arm.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Verb

unarm (third-person singular simple present unarms, present participle unarming, simple past and past participle unarmed)

1. (transitive) To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.
2. (intransitive) To remove one's armour.

Anagrams

• Munar, Namur, urman

English

Etymology

un- +? ARC

Verb

unarc (third-person singular simple present unarcs, present participle unarcing, simple past and past participle unarced)

1. (computing, transitive) To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in ARC (file format).
   • 1988, Forth Dimensions (volume 10, page 18)

     I unarced it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83.

   • 1991, InfoWorld (volume 13, issues 9-17, page 390)

     Windows setup entails unarcing files into system subdirectory […]

   • 1993, Microtimes (volume 10, page 210)

     MegaD also provides an easy method for arcing or unarcing files using various compression programs.

   • 2005, Kirk St. Amant, Pavel Zemliansky, Internet-based Workplace Communications

     Early in the semester, students also had to learn how to ftp files from a remote site and unarc them using PKXARC.

Anagrams

• Craun, NCAUR