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Unpacked vs Unpacker - What's the difference?

unpacked | unpacker |

As a verb unpacked

is .

As an adjective unpacked

is having had its packing removed.

As a noun unpacker is

one who, or that which, unpacks.

unpacked

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having had its packing removed.
  • :I worked all day and managed to get all the boxes unpacked .
  • Not yet packed.
  • :The unpacked gifts are on the table.
  • Not yet having had its packing removed. (Especially after still. For more on this use, see [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002171.html])
  • :I left the box, still unpacked , at our old house.

    • unpacker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, unpacks.
  • * 1977 , House & Garden (volume 149, page 168)
    • One great advantage of professional unpacking is that the unpackers take away all the wrapping and cartons
  • (computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.
  • * 2007 , David Harley, AVIEN malware defense guide for the Enterprise (page 408)
    • All packed malware consists of the unpacker code and packed data, which typically look like random data. The benefit of packed malware, from a malicious author's point of view, is that it cannot be analyzed until it is properly unpacked.