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单词 zip
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zip

/zɪp /
verb (zips, zipping, zipped)
1 [with object] Fasten with a zip: he zipped up his waterproof...
  • Liz stood at the door in gray sweatpants and a black jacket that was zipped up.
  • However they imagined this end, I cannot help but seeing an image of a body bag being zipped up.
  • I pulled out three dollars and zipped my purse.
1.1Fasten the zip of a garment that (someone) is wearing: he zipped himself up...
  • ‘Shut up and slip into the dress, so I can zip you up’ Kirk said coolly.
  • He was over in a flash, zipped her up, helped her on with her coat: a complete gentleman.
  • I zipped him up inside my comfy top thing so that his head was poking out from just under my chin, and I set about cooking dinner.
2 [no object, with adverbial of direction] informal Move at high speed: swallows zipped back and forth across the lake...
  • Brooks, a war correspondent, has obviously done her homework, and her first novel zips along entertainingly, filled with incident and detail.
  • The magnesium catches fire and zips around on the surface of the water.
  • I literally feel life zip by me while I stand rooted.
2.1 [with object and adverbial] Cause to move or be delivered or dealt with rapidly: he zipped a pass out to his receiver...
  • First, Ginobili drove the lane and drew Duncan's defender, zipping a pass to Duncan all alone on the baseline for a 19-footer.
  • Carr zipped a perfect pass to a wide-open Johnson, who dropped the easy catch that would have given Houston another third down conversion.
  • Against the Kings, Yao zipped a no-look scoop pass across the court to PG Steve Francis.
3 Computing Compress (a file) so that it takes less space in storage.The standard way around this is to zip the executable files before sending them....
  • The Trojan arrives in an e-mail with an attachment that is zipped and contains an executable.
  • Like the smaller test, we'll be zipping the images into one zip file, then testing again with all the files separate.
noun
1 (also zip fastener) chiefly British A device consisting of two flexible strips of metal or plastic with interlocking projections closed or opened by pulling a slide along them, used to fasten garments, bags, and other items.Miss Stephenson was wearing black baggy knee-length combat trousers covered in zips and chains, and knee-length stripy socks with white Adidas trainers....
  • Today, however, I set out for the walk and the zip stayed open as I pulled it up.
  • Yes, belts, buckles and zips are high fashion for us men this winter.
1.1 [as modifier] Denoting something fastened by a zip: a zip pocket...
  • She was wearing blue jeans and a black zip top with ‘Sherbourne’ written on the front in white lettering.
  • It's light and has plenty of space, as well as a zip pocket.
  • The pants have an elastic drawcord waist, articulated knees, stretch panels on the waist, and a back zip pocket.
2 [mass noun] informal Energy; vigour: he’s full of zip...
  • Even in the scrappy draw with Everton last Monday, there were signs that it has given them a bit of their old zip, and they will approach this afternoon in good spirits.
  • Want to add some crunch to your salad, some zing to your pasta, some zip to your dip?
  • The zip she detects in Tokyo is missing in London and/or Paris and/or New York, she is saying.
pronoun
(also zippo) North American informal Nothing at all: you got zip to do with me and my kind, buddy...
  • That will mean that anyone earning under $38,000 gets zero, zippo, and members of Parliament get at least $100 a week extra.
  • And you don't have to sacrifice zip for cleaner air.
  • I checked in on concerned daughter, again zippo.

Origin

Mid 19th century: imitative.

  • As a name for a fastener, zip dates from the 1920s. The idea of speed was already present in a 19th-century use representing the sound of something moving through the air rapidly. Zoom appears at the same time with the same sense. In the USA zip also means ‘nothing, nil, zero’. This appeared in print in 1900, much earlier than the similar zilch, the first clear example of which dates from the mid 1960s, though Mr Zilch had been used as an indefinite name 30 or more years before. The US zip code, a postal code consisting of five or nine digits, is unrelated, being short for Zone Improvement Plan.

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