What's the difference between unpack and unpacker?

Unpack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.
  • (v. t.) To relieve of a pack or burden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
  • (2) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
  • (3) Or the basis of an Alice Munro short story concerned (as in all her stories) with Unpacking Fraught Outcomes.
  • (4) His statements take some unpacking, and for fans of the Tomb Raider series they're not encouraging.
  • (5) liquefaciens proceeded similarly both in packed and unpacked forcemeat.
  • (6) There are a lot of pregnancy issues to think about which have not been unpacked yet.
  • (7) Some of the stories were impossible to unpack, others, like The Gift, were classically constructed short stories.
  • (8) And this is where we have to start to unpack our doubts.” She drew on her own experience and said her former husband Greg, who murdered their son Luke in 2014, had a marijuana dependency and suffered from paranoia.
  • (9) Unpacked sites had filled completely with loosely woven trabecular bone.
  • (10) The DVD extras show a deleted scene of Doc unpacking a suitcase of essentials he would have taken with him to the future: spare underwear, various types of cash, a hairdryer, and a copy of Playboy.
  • (11) She has just moved house when I meet her and an adjacent room is full of unpacked boxes.
  • (12) When stored for 24 hours at room temperature, unpacked arepas have a surface moisture loss of 47%, and even if reheated, hardening becomes irreversible in 84.6% of them.
  • (13) And then, a week later, you talk to her again, and you try to understand that it often takes several goes for a woman to escape, several bags packed and unpacked, several train tickets bought.
  • (14) This week I helped him with his unpacking at the house.
  • (15) We have to work with development professionals to unpack their linguistic horrors of value chains, gender mainstreaming and capacity building to find out what that actually means and then communicate it effectively.
  • (16) She put outfits together herself and, much to my mother's amazement, tidies up after herself and neatly packs and unpacks her belongings when she comes home from college.
  • (17) Unpack Theresa May’s anti-immigration statement and it dissolves into qualifiable anxieties about how schools and housing and hospitals will accommodate rapid population growth.
  • (18) To unpack the story of this one brand of backpack is to travel to the heart of early 21st-century consumerism.
  • (19) Those who work in this field must make conscious choices about how to unpack their boxes.
  • (20) During Ramadan, local Muslims gather in groups unpacking picnics, waiting for the sun to set over this bustling city.

Unpacker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who unpacks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
  • (2) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
  • (3) Or the basis of an Alice Munro short story concerned (as in all her stories) with Unpacking Fraught Outcomes.
  • (4) His statements take some unpacking, and for fans of the Tomb Raider series they're not encouraging.
  • (5) liquefaciens proceeded similarly both in packed and unpacked forcemeat.
  • (6) There are a lot of pregnancy issues to think about which have not been unpacked yet.
  • (7) Some of the stories were impossible to unpack, others, like The Gift, were classically constructed short stories.
  • (8) And this is where we have to start to unpack our doubts.” She drew on her own experience and said her former husband Greg, who murdered their son Luke in 2014, had a marijuana dependency and suffered from paranoia.
  • (9) Unpacked sites had filled completely with loosely woven trabecular bone.
  • (10) The DVD extras show a deleted scene of Doc unpacking a suitcase of essentials he would have taken with him to the future: spare underwear, various types of cash, a hairdryer, and a copy of Playboy.
  • (11) She has just moved house when I meet her and an adjacent room is full of unpacked boxes.
  • (12) When stored for 24 hours at room temperature, unpacked arepas have a surface moisture loss of 47%, and even if reheated, hardening becomes irreversible in 84.6% of them.
  • (13) And then, a week later, you talk to her again, and you try to understand that it often takes several goes for a woman to escape, several bags packed and unpacked, several train tickets bought.
  • (14) This week I helped him with his unpacking at the house.
  • (15) We have to work with development professionals to unpack their linguistic horrors of value chains, gender mainstreaming and capacity building to find out what that actually means and then communicate it effectively.
  • (16) She put outfits together herself and, much to my mother's amazement, tidies up after herself and neatly packs and unpacks her belongings when she comes home from college.
  • (17) Unpack Theresa May’s anti-immigration statement and it dissolves into qualifiable anxieties about how schools and housing and hospitals will accommodate rapid population growth.
  • (18) To unpack the story of this one brand of backpack is to travel to the heart of early 21st-century consumerism.
  • (19) Those who work in this field must make conscious choices about how to unpack their boxes.
  • (20) During Ramadan, local Muslims gather in groups unpacking picnics, waiting for the sun to set over this bustling city.

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