What's the difference between unfasten and unzip?

Unfasten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clip was found to have come unfastened; simple repeat closure was performed.
  • (2) Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Showing off some long-craved organisation and defensive resilience, Sunderland also offered sporadic threats on the break.
  • (3) LTD4 levels in the muscle also increased at the fastened site just before and 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (4) After unfastening, the rabbits showed a gradual decline of blood pressure, and one died 7 hours after unfastening.
  • (5) When I mentioned this , he told me he was planning on having its voice box unfastened so it would not be so annoying, and gave me a wicked smile.
  • (6) On the contrary, LTD4 levels in the blood increased just before and 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (7) I had no arguments with the Sunderland bench, there is nothing else to say, except that it might be the first time I have ever been called soft.” Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Liverpool are at West Ham United on Saturday, where Klopp could have been in the opposing dugout had the London club’s owners had their way in the summer.
  • (8) The amounts of LTB4, LTD4 and LTE4 in the blood and muscle were measured just before unfastening and 3, 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (9) Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling fails to turn up for training, citing illness Read more 2) Indulge in a little bit of misconduct What better way to unfasten yourself from your contract (and sell yourself to new employers) than to stoop to arguably the lowest rank of (un)professionalism: gross misconduct.
  • (10) Leaning down to unfasten the latch brought one into close proximity to the holes on either side of the gate.
  • (11) LTE4 levels in the blood increased 3 hours, and those in the muscle 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (12) To open the gate one had to bend down to unfasten a latch 45 cm above ground level.

Unzip


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, both the Tories and Lib Dems would unzip the contracts rights renewal mechanism , which stops ITV1 from abusing its sales power over advertisers, while Labour has been more cautious in committing to overturning it.
  • (2) Separation of gap junctional sites took place in two ways: (1) by 'unzipping' them through enzyme action; (2) by tearing them mechanically.
  • (3) In this week's episode, the bear costume was unzipped to reveal that Santa Claus, not Muhammad, had been inside all along.
  • (4) He arrived without entourage or announcement, unzipped his puffer jacket, shook Skip’s hand, and – after greeting everyone in the room – took a seat on the side of the room and asked to get to work.
  • (5) "For ARTPOP, I, in the most metaphorical explanation, stood in front of a mirror and I took off the wig and I took off the makeup and I unzipped the outfit and I put a black cap on my head and I covered my body in a black catsuit and I looked in the mirror and I said: 'OK, now you need to show them you can be brilliant without that.'
  • (6) The plug was then unzipped from the lipid envelope and degraded.
  • (7) So I got myself the outfit, put it on, lit a few candles, dropped to my knees, unzipped his pants and put him on a 10-month waiting list.” She bursts out laughing.
  • (8) She is the first to get the good news, the only American to greet the returning Seals, the person who unzips the body-bag and IDs the corpse.
  • (9) These interactions, which are not present in rubredoxins from mesophilic organisms, may prevent the beta-sheet from "unzipping" at elevated temperatures.
  • (10) He says he unzipped his trousers, wriggled free, ripped off his shirt, pushed through a mass of flailing bodies to the top of the cabin, before forcing his way through an open window and struggling to the surface.
  • (11) Denis Healey answers the door of his Sussex home dressed in an eye-grabbing mixture of classic and modern casual: a matching safari shirt and voluminous shorts, combined with an unzipped fleece and some rather flash Hi-Tec trainers.
  • (12) Hairpins from a single class are readily interconverted by loss or gain of hydrogen bonds, but interconversion between classes requires complete unzipping and reformation of the entire beta-hairpin.
  • (13) I walk with Rakesh Tamang, a trekking guide, who tells me what a quiet, honest man Karma was and how awful it was the day the 16 body bags landed at Lukla airport and he stood on the tarmac when a government doctor came to unzip them all and certify them dead.
  • (14) The first, in 1969, saw a 15-year-old girl escorted off the premises after telling a production assistant that Savile had unzipped her hot pants and put his hand inside her knickers.
  • (15) We hypothesized that it might also increase the efficiency of termination, for example by competing with the template DNA strand so as to help 'unzip' the 3'-end of the RNA from its complementary DNA.
  • (16) Martin Xuereb – a former brigadier who had been Cauchi’s boss as head of Malta’s armed services, and would later work with the Catrambones – still recalls watching a body bag being unzipped on a patrol boat several years ago.
  • (17) "I never believed that the moment of freedom would come," Mamur, 58, said this week, unzipping the bag to show off his suit, as well as the yellow tie and black shoes he picked to go with it.
  • (18) One of them would unzip his flies and hang his willy out of his trousers, then the others would challenge him to go up to someone famous and “knob touch” them.
  • (19) The lead role of Brother Christian is wonderfully played by Lambert Wilson, who appeared in Cannes looking the direct opposite of his austere character, wearing sunglasses and a retro red tracksuit top unzipped to his navel.
  • (20) Wearing a shirt that appeared to have been made from an old tent and which was unzipped so far that it offered regular flashes of nipple, he earned a round of applause almost with his first banker-bashing words.

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