unpack
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English unpakken, equivalent to un- + pack.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ʌnˈpæk/
unpack (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.
(figurative, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain. - (linguistics, intransitive, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- 2008, Katrin Dohlus, The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation, page 73:
- Whereas the high vowels /ʏ, 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.
- (computing, transitive) To unzip, 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 […]
- French: déballer
- German: entpacken, auspacken
- Italian: sballare, disimballare
- Portuguese: desempacotar
- Russian: распако́вывать
- Spanish: (Latin America) desempacar, (Spain, suitcase) deshacer, (Spain, package, box) desempaquetar
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