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unpack

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  • //ʌnˈpæk//

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

verbo

  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

    figuradoTo 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[…]

Etimología

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”).

Formas

pasado
unpacked
participio
unpacked
gerundio
unpacking
3.ª persona del singular
unpacks
Las páginas vecinasEl orden alfabético sigue las reglas del idioma, no el valor de los bytes: un acento solo desempata entre dos palabras por lo demás idénticas, y la Ñ es una letra propia con su propia sección.

Contenido léxico procedente de Wiktionary, bajo licencia CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origen · Versión de los datos 2026-08-23

Posición entre las palabras del corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — subtítulos de cine y televisión, es decir lengua hablada y no escrita (CC BY-SA 3.0).