Unwrap vs Unpack - What's the difference?
unwrap | unpack |
(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
As verbs the difference between unwrap and unpack
is that unwrap is to open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded while unpack is (to remove from a package) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.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