Unpack vs Unload - What's the difference?
unpack | unload |
(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
To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
To deposit one's load or cargo.
* 1998 , Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
* 1984 , John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
(computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
* 1993 , Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
To discharge or pour a liquid.
To get rid of or dispose of.
(slang) To go to the bathroom.
To deliver forcefully.
(slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice
To draw the charge from.
In transitive terms the difference between unpack and unload
is that unpack is to analyze a concept or a text while unload is to draw the charge from.In intransitive terms the difference between unpack and unload
is that unpack is to empty containers that had been packed while unload is to deposit one's load or cargo.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.
- Packages
Antonyms
* packSee also
* ("unpack" on Wikipedia)unload
English
Verb
(en verb)- to unload''' a ship; to '''unload a camel
- to unload bales of hay from a truck
- Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.
- ...who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.
- When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.
- to unload unprofitable stocks
- to unload feces
- to unload a gun
