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unpack
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)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.
- They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
- (transitive) To analyze a concept or a text.
- (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.
- 2000, in Language, volume 76, issues 1-2, page 337:
- (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 […]
- 2005, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Matt Welsh, Running Linux
Antonyms
- pack
Translations
See also
- unpack on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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unpacking
English
Noun
unpacking (plural unpackings)
- The act by which something is unpacked.
- (linguistics) The separation of the features of a segment (such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant) into distinct segments; for example, the separation of a nasal vowel such as /??/ into a vowel /?/ and a nasal consonant /n/ (i.e., into /?n/) which often occurs when a language which does not use nasal vowels borrows from a language which does use them.
Verb
unpacking
- present participle of unpack
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