Unpicks vs Unpacks - What's the difference?
unpicks | unpacks |
(unpick)
(sewing) To undo sewing stitches.
(knitting) To undo knitting in order to reuse the wool.
To unravel or untangle the threads of a rope etc.
(figuratively) To disassemble.
* {{quote-news
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(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 unpicks and unpacks
is that unpicks is (unpick) while unpacks is (unpack).unpicks
English
Verb
(head)unpick
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=The home team eventually started to unpick the Town defence and Fabregas forced a saved from visiting goalkeeper Marton Fulop after collecting a pass from Bendtner, who played on the right side of the front line.}}
unpacks
English
Verb
(head)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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