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packer | unpack |

As a noun packer

is a person who plays football for the professional football team.

As a verb unpack is

(senseid)to remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.

packer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer or a household goods packer.
    • When his back problems kept him from lifting furniture, his skill as a packer kept him employed.
  • (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
  • * 2009 , Harlan Carvey, Windows Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit
    • Many times, the malware authors will use packers and even encryption tools to disguise their software...
  • (label) An artificial penis worn by a drag king, transman, etc., inside the trousers.

    • Anagrams

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    unpack

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (senseid)To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
    • They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
  • To empty containers that had been packed.
    • They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
  • To analyze a concept or a text.
  • (linguistics, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
  • * 2000 , in Language , volume 76, issues 1-2, page 337:
    • The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/?] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, [...]
  • * 2008 , Katrin Dohlus, The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation , page 73
    • Whereas the high vowels /?, y/ unpack , the mid vowels /œ, ø/ are adapted as single segments in these languages (see examples in (36) for Vietnamese (Barker 1969) and (37) for Fon (Gbeto 2000)). [...]
    French /y/ ? Vietnamese /wi/
    accu [a'ky] ? ac-quy [ak kwi]
  • * 2011 , John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu (editors), The Handbook of Phonological Theory :
    • The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them.
  • (computing) To decompress.
  • * 2005 , Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, ?Matt Welsh, Running Linux
    • Packages

    Antonyms

    * pack

    See also

    * ("unpack" on Wikipedia)