(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.
Unwrap
Definition:
(v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
Example Sentences:
(1) The retrieval is done by using a bidimensional Gerchberg-Saxton phase-retrieval algorithm joined to an iterative phase-unwrapping algorithm.
(2) Group II fascial wrap grafts demonstrated variable endothelial coverage in the wrapped area (means = 48%) that was consistently less than in adjacent unwrapped portions (means = 62%), and significantly less than vein wrap sections of group I animals (P less than 0.04).
(3) Dave Price, the head of BBC iPlayer, said: "BBC iPlayer had a record-breaking festive period, with performance driven by new mobiles and tablets unwrapped on Christmas Day, and it looks like these devices have yet to be put down."
(4) Unwrapping the layers of spin from his original remarks and what EngskovWhat he actually pledged is way more modest.
(5) Recently, we adopted open-unwrapping and aortic button technique.
(6) Ten wrapped and 10 unwrapped pieces of methylmethacrylate were implanted in dogs, and were removed at intervals of 2, 4, 8, 11 and 16 weeks.
(7) Noting the number of times – 16 – a reporter was forced to write “unintelligible” in the transcript of Trump’s infamous interview with AP, Meyers was struck that “Trump’s answers are literally just mad libs now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon wished first lady Melania Trump a happy birthday: “She plans to celebrate with her loved ones – and Donald.” The couple planned to celebrate as they always do: “Making sure Donald has something to unwrap too so he doesn’t feel left out.” Fallon also mentioned former presidential candidate Chris Christie giving Trump a B grade on his first 100 days, as well as an A on immigration, and a C on healthcare.
(8) Modification of four epsilon-amino groups by buturic and succinic anhydrides and of three epsilon-amino groups by TNBS is found to increase the regidity of protein surrounding of heme, and modification of six epsilon-amino groups by TNBS results in more unwrapped enzyme structure as compared with its native molecule.
(9) Paracetamol increased the time below 37.2 degrees C in four hours by 109 (95% confidence interval 74 to 145) minutes compared with unwrapping; warm sponging caused the fastest reduction in temperature.
(10) A new two-dimensional phase unwrapping algorithm is presented, along with simulation results.
(11) The rumors are that Joseph is indeed going to be up front, as Sigi Schmid does the equivalent of unwrapping his tightly wound scarf and swinging it round his head yelling, “COME ON THEN!
(12) Samples were unwrapped at intervals (up to the end of the usual maximum shelf-life for the food) and analysed for their glycol content.
(13) Insulin derived from unwrapped pancreata was found to comprise two peaks on high-pressure liquid chromatography and that from wrapped pancreata a single peak.
(14) Children across the country will unwrap chocolate coin bags that are 15g lighter than last year, though their parents (or Santa) will have paid the same £1 for them – making them 18% more expensive.
(15) He wouldn't use email and said he'd never unwrapped the computer in his office.
(16) The only food that was common to all the laboratory-confirmed cases was bread, purchased either unwrapped or as rolls, sandwiches or filled rolls, and supplied either directly from one shop or indirectly through its subsidiary outlets.
(17) This phase needs to be unwrapped, which is complicated by the presence of noise and multiple objects of irregular shape.
(18) Abundant foam cells were found in the intima of unwrapped veins, whereas they were absent or rare in wrapped segments.
(19) It's almost worth trying it, just to see the look of sheer horror on the little darlings' faces when they unwrap that sticky, pointy thing and discover that, yes, you really have just wrapped up the garden sweepings.
(20) Then I unwrap my present and it is Pippa's tragic book?