unzip

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ zip.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪp

Verb

unzip (third-person singular simple present unzips, present participle unzipping, simple past and past participle unzipped)

1. (transitive) To open something using a zipper.
   • 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 274:

     He turned back and started unzipping a bag.

2. (intransitive) To come open by means of a zipper.
3. (computing, transitive) To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.

Antonyms

• zip up

Translations

to open something using a zipper

• Bulgarian: отварям ципа (otvarjam cipa)
• Finnish: avata vetoketju
• Hungarian: kicipzároz (hu), kinyitja a cipzárját
• Norman: dêziper

to come open by means of a zipper

• Hungarian: kinyílik a cipzárja
• Norman: dêziper

computing: to decompress a zip file

• Bulgarian: разгъвам (bg) (razgǎvam), разархивирам (bg) (razarhiviram)
• Catalan: descomprimir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解壓縮／解压缩 (zh) (jiěyāsuō)

• Czech: dekomprimovat
• Finnish: purkaa (fi)
• French: décompresser (fr), dézipper (fr)
• Galician: descomprimir
• German: entpacken (de), dekomprimieren, entzippen (de)
• Greek: αποσυμπιέζω (el) (aposympiézo)
• Hebrew: חלץ (he) m (h'aletz), פשט (he) m (fashét)
• Hungarian: kicsomagol (hu), kibont (hu), kitömörít (hu)
• Icelandic: afþjappa
• Italian: decomprimere (it)
• Maori: whewhera
• Norman: dêziper
• Occitan: descomprimir
• Portuguese: descomprimir, descompactar, deszipar
• Spanish: descomprimir (es)