unpack
IPA: ʌnpˈæk
verb
- (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
- (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.
- (figurative, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
- (linguistics, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- (computing, transitive) To unzip, decompress.
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Examples of "unpack" in Sentences
- I unpacked my backpack.
- The others unpack their weapons.
- Oh let's unpack the first order.
- Let me unpack the first piece of evidence.
- I unpacked it and ran the configure file in terminal.
- It fails to unpack the place of reason in the Randian corpus.
- The auditory musical equivalent is a little harder to unpack.
- The unpack operator will propagate the forwarding syntax to each parameter.
- As they unpack, she hangs a large portrait of the family in the living room.
- In the shelter the promised new food has arrived and the scientists unpack it.
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