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unpack

Verbin Dialogen belegt

  • //ʌnˈpæk//

To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.

Verb

  1. 1

    To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.

    They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.

  2. 2

    To empty containers that had been packed.

    They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.

  3. 3

    übertragenTo analyze a concept or a text; to explain.

    There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes.

    Yet few Americans — including the president — understand how global trade works, both how it can help our economy and how some can be left behind. Let’s try to unpack a few of the complexities.

    From a gender reveal to a secret ceremony and rifts with other royal family members, there was a lot to unpack from the interview

  4. 4

    To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.

    The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]

    Whereas the high vowels /ʏ, 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.

  5. 5

    To decompress (data).

    Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]

Herkunft

From Middle English unpakken, equivalent to un- + pack. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpakje (“to unpack”), West Frisian útpakke (“to unpack”), Dutch uitpakken (“to unpack”), German auspacken (“to unpack”).

Formen

Präteritum
unpacked
Partizip II
unpacked
Partizip I
unpacking
3. Person Singular
unpacks
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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