What's the difference between unzip and zip?

Unzip


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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.

Zip


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Bournemouth full of zest and defiance, the game zipped by.
  • (2) Although he didn’t personally witness the waterboarding or zipping, he had on two or three occasions witnessed asylum seekers walking out of a tent wet and coughing up water.
  • (3) You have to create an online account in order to get any information about plans and costs, so I went through the process of creating a username and password, and gave my date of birth and zip code.
  • (4) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
  • (5) He is chairman of SolarCity, which provides solar power to California, and this week he revealed more detail on perhaps his most intriguing business idea yet, something some consider one of history's craziest-sounding transportation fancies: the Hyperloop , an 800mph self-powered ground-based system that could zip between LA and San Francisco in half-an-hour.
  • (6) These results suggest a close association or overlap of the DNA binding and nuclear targeting domains of B-ZIP proteins.
  • (7) giant protein made in bacteria or in embryos binds in vitro to the Krüppel regulatory elements CD1 and CD2 and recognizes a sequence resembling the binding sites of other b-ZIP proteins.
  • (8) "7-Zip doesn't place files [inside folders] that were not specified by the user," said Pavlov.
  • (9) A complementary DNA that encoded a member of the basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper (bHLH-Zip) family of proteins was isolated.
  • (10) A monodimensional electrophoretic method for the separation of glycosaminoglycans on Titan III Zip Zone cellulose acetate plate based on their different electrophoretic mobilities in barium acetate and different solubilities in ethanol was applied to the Chemetron electrophoretic equipment.
  • (11) The cys-3 gene encodes a regulatory protein of 236 amino acid residues with a leucine zipper and an upstream basic region (the b-zip region) which together may constitute a DNA-binding domain.
  • (12) Zoster immune plasma (ZIP) was evaluated for treatment of cutaneous disseminated zoster in immunocompromised hosts.
  • (13) A survey of the practice styles and preferences of 1988 ASCRS members with a U.S. zip code was taken in September 1988.
  • (14) To determine whether emergency department complaint frequency varies with patient median household income, as approximated by patient residence zip code.
  • (15) Using the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System, we obtained discharge data for 1,034 patients over age 39, who were hospitalized for stroke from 1983 to 1986, using four zip code areas of the ethnically mixed community of Northern Manhattan.
  • (16) Suddenly, several lanes of cars and buses are zipping past, but Calvo pays no heed – we are on a smooth, green-tarmacked bike lane, separated from motor traffic by both a raised kerb and a waist-high fence.
  • (17) When we meet in her small, airless office in the headquarters of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, her hair is swept back in a ponytail, her clothes are fashionable but discreet: a black top with zip detailing at the shoulders, tailored beige trousers, boots with a sensible heel.
  • (18) Hence, in this "b-HLH-zip" class of proteins, the leucine zipper functions in concert with the HLH both to stabilize protein-protein interactions and to establish dimerization specificity.
  • (19) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
  • (20) So onwards and outwards… Get the adrenalin pumping Down the line: Zip World opens to the public in Bethesda, north Wales.

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