different between unpack vs unpark

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

English

Etymology

From un- +? park.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n?p??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n?p??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Hyphenation: un?park

Verb

unpark (third-person singular simple present unparks, present participle unparking, simple past and past participle unparked)

1. (transitive) to remove (a car or other vehicle) from a parked position
   • 1950, The Deseret News, vol. 332, no. 33, "Mother Recovers Car Outbound Son Parked:

     Tuesday Mrs. Jennie Anderson, 366 North Ninth West St., received the ten-day-old letter asking her to go to Seattle and unpark the car.

2. (intransitive) to remove a car or other vehicle from a parked position
   • 1969, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 409 F.2d 1130:

     A small portion of that area near the sentry booth was left open for vehicular movements essential to parking and unparking.

3. (computing, transitive) To release from the fixed position adopted when not in use.

   to unpark the head of a disk drive

Translations

Anagrams

• Kanpur, uprank