unzipped
/ənzˈɪpt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of unzip
adj
Not zipped (closed with a zip fastener).
adj
Not zipped (compressed into a single and often smaller file, especially a zip file).
Example Sentences
- "She threw the unzipped backpack outside, and when I ran out to get it, because I was worried about my homework blowing away, she locked and bolted the door."
- "She sees the books from her backpack scattered around her, and suddenly she is in her father’s old bedroom again, putting her books into her backpack when her mother comes to tell her that the cousins have arrived, slinging her backpack on before it is zipped and following her downstairs, and her backpack is unzipped in the hall as they eat Yorkshire pudding and roast beef, and it is unzipped in the hall as they eat Yorkshire pudding and roast beef, and it is unzipped in the car as they drive home, and it is unzipped as she runs through the lobby and crashes to the tiles, but it is only now, as the blood from her nose seeps into the cuff of her sweater and the books lie all around her, that she realizes that it has been unzipped all this time."
- "Cloudy crawls inside the unzipped backpack."
- "To zip a file or directory with gzip: / […] / 2. gzip zipadeedoodah.tar / Type gzip followed by the name of the file or directory to gzip. The zipped file will replace the unzipped version and will have a new .gz extension. / ✓ Tips / […] / ▪ If you want to keep a copy of the original, unzipped file, try gzip -c filetogzip > compressed.gz."
- "The function unzip.retrosheet unzips the file and puts the individual event files and roster files in the “unzipped” folder. The function create.csv.file(season) reads the individual team record files into R, merges the files, and writes a new single combined file in csv format in the “unzipped” folder."
- "hawkeye: as one of my friends like to say, “How hard is your big drive?” / daisy: lol! / dragon: more importantly, Hawkeye, is it compressed? / daisy: more importantly, is it unzipped? / hawkeye: and how often do you optimize it?"
Etymology
From unzip + -ed.