Zip vs Buttons - What's the difference?
zip | buttons |
The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Energy; vigor; vim.
(British, NZ) A zip fastener.
Zero; nothing.
A trip on a zipline.
(computing, informal) A zip file.
To close with a zip fastener.
(figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
(computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
(followed by a preposition ) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
(colloquial) (followed by a preposition ) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
To make (something) move quickly
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 27
, author=Mike Henson
, title=Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham
, work=BBC Sport
To travel on a zipline.
(US) Shortened form of ZIP code, the US postal code.
(US) Any postal code, for any country.
(colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.
(slang) A policeman.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 78:
*:‘Go ahead, call the buttons . You'll get a big reaction from it.’
(button)
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As nouns the difference between zip and buttons
is that zip is the high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air while buttons is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between zip and buttons
is that zip is to close with a zip fastener while buttons is third-person singular of button.As an interjection zip
is the high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.zip
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sound) whizz, zing * (fastener) slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper (chiefly US )Synonyms
* whee!, whizz!, zing!Verb
- zip one's lip
- The bullet zipped through the air.
- Zip down to the shops for some milk.
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Derived terms
() * unzip * zip- * zip down * Zip drive * zip file * zip-front * zip it * zip one's lip * zip up * zip wire, zip-wireSynonyms
* (close with a zip fastener) zip upEtymology 2
From zip codeNoun
(en noun)See also
* postcode (UK ) * postal code (UK )buttons
English
Noun
(head)- (Dickens)