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Compress vs Unzipper - What's the difference?

compress | unzipper |

In lang=en terms the difference between compress and unzipper

is that compress is to abridge while unzipper is to unzip.

As verbs the difference between compress and unzipper

is that compress is to make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume while unzipper is to unzip.

As nouns the difference between compress and unzipper

is that compress is a multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc, used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury while unzipper is (computing) a program that extracts files from compressed archives.

compress

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) compresser, from compressare 'to press hard/together', from compressus, the past participle of comprimere 'to compress', itself from com- 'together' + premere 'to press'

Verb

  • To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
    • The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
  • * D. Webster
    • events of centuries compressed within the compass of a single life
  • * Melmoth
    • The same strength of expression, though more compressed , runs through his historical harangues.
  • To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
    • ''Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
  • To condense into a more economic, easier format.
    • This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
  • To abridge.
    • If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
  • (technology) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
  • (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
    • (Alexander Pope)
    Synonyms
    * (press together ): compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze * (be pressed together ): contract * (condense, abridge ): abridge, condense, shorten, truncate
    Antonyms
    * (press together ): expand * (be pressed together ): decontract * (condense, abridge ): expand, lengthen * (make computing data smaller ): uncompress
    Derived terms
    * compressed * compressed air * compressedly * compressibility * compressible * compression * compressive * compressive strength * compressor * decompress
    Related terms
    * compression

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) compresse, from compresser 'to compress', from Late (etyl) compressare 'to press hard/together', from compressus, the past participle of comprimere 'to compress', itself from com- 'together' + premere 'to press'

    Noun

    (es)
  • A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
    • He held a cold compress over the sprain.
  • A machine for compressing
    • Related terms
    * compression

    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.