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Unbox vs Unpack - What's the difference?

unbox | unpack |

Unpack is a antonym of unbox.



In transitive terms the difference between unbox and unpack

is that unbox is to remove from a box while unpack is to analyze a concept or a text.

unbox

English

Verb

  • To remove from a box.
  • * 2005 , Andrew Laties, Rebel Bookseller
    • The booksellers' tasks were to unbox , shelve, and handle cash.
  • (computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
  • * 2004 , Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook
    • When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box'' or ''unbox command.

    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)