Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who unpacks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who unpacks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
unpacks . - noun computing A
software program thatdecompresses code or data.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I say thou art unpacker of mules 'burdens!" answered King.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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My husband came home late at night and he's not an immediate unpacker like me, so the next morning when I got up and saw his bag laying on the floor, I thought nothing of it.
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She had the air of the born unpacker -- swift and firm, yet withal tender.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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She had the air of the born unpacker -- swift and firm, yet withal tender.
Zuleika Dobson 1911
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"I say thou art unpacker of mules 'burdens!" answered King.
King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909
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When Sophy, whom I beg to be the unpacker, opens it, you will see a certain dabbed-up crooked pasteboard tray in which are four frills for you: I hemmed every inch of them myself, to give them the only value they could have in your eyes.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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By the awkwardness of the unpacker, the statue's thumb was broken.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper. app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.
Applelinks.com 2010
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Inno Setup Unpacker is a simple, easy to use piece of software designed to be a unpacker for installations made with Inno Setup.
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Unfortunately, there is no official unpacker - the only method of getting the files out of the self-extracting executable is to run it.
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