unpack

verbattested in dialogue

//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
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
To empty containers that had been packed.
They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
3
figurativeTo 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
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
To decompress (data).
Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]

Etymology

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”).

Forms

past tense: unpacked
past participle: unpacked
present participle: unpacking
third person singular: unpacks

Uno · A card game similar to crazy eights, played with specially…unofficial · Not officially established.unorthodox · Unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic.

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

unpaid · Not paid for.unpleasant · Not pleasant.unpopular · Lacking popularity.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.