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Archive vs Unzipper - What's the difference?

archive | unzipper |

As verbs the difference between archive and unzipper

is that archive is while unzipper is to unzip.

As a noun unzipper is

(computing) a program that extracts files from compressed archives.

archive

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
  • The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
    • His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.

    Derived terms

    () * archival * archivist * national archive

    Verb

    (archiv)
  • To put into an archive.
    • I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.

    unzipper

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To unzip.
  • * 1998 , Robert J. Andreach, Creating the self in the contemporary American theatre (page 30)
    • He unzippers his fly, but he does not ask Mae to come to him as Lloyd did in scene 1.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A program that extracts files from compressed archives.
  • * 1992 , PC Mag (volume 11, number 6, 31 March 1992)
    • The problem is that you may not have the necessary unzipper .
  • * 1995 , Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer (page 202)
    • Which comes first, the ZIP file or the unzipper ? You can't uncompress a file containing PKUNZIP unless you first have PKUNZIP.