n. | 1. | A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet. |
v. i. | 1. | To make, or move with, such a sound. |
Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | zip - a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab | |
Verb | 1. | zip - close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" |
2. | zip - move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed" |
1. | (tool, compression, file format) | zip - To create a compressed
archive (a "zip file") from one or more files using
PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver. Its use is
spreading from MS-DOS now that portable implementations of
the algorithm have been written. zip is also the name of a Unix archiving utility compatible with PKZIP. unzip is the corresponding de-archiver. See also gzip, tar and feather. | |
2. | (storage) | zip - Zip Drive. |