Unbox vs Unpack - What's the difference?
unbox | unpack |
To remove from a box.
* 2005 , Andrew Laties, Rebel Bookseller
(computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
* 2004 , Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook
(senseid)To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
To empty containers that had been packed.
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:
* 2008 , Katrin Dohlus, The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation , page 73
* 2011 , John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu (editors), The Handbook of Phonological Theory :
(computing) To decompress.
* 2005 , Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, ?Matt Welsh, Running Linux
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
- The booksellers' tasks were to unbox , shelve, and handle cash.
- 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)- They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
- They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
- The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/?] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, [...]
- 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]
- The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them.
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