Onomatopoeic.
zip (pluralzips)
- Thehigh-pitchedsound of a small object movingrapidly through air.
- (informal)Energy;vigor;vim.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Azip fastener.
- (slang)Zero;nothing.
I knowzip about economics.
- A trip on azipline.
- (computing, informal) Azip file.
- (programming)Synonym ofconvolution(“type of mapping function”).
- Synonym ofzip zap zop
- (slang) Anounce ofmarijuana.
zip
- (onomatopoeia) Imitative ofhigh-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
1934,Henry G. Lamond,An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page35:`Zip!' Just like that, an exquisitely shaped fragment of a flashing rainbow in flight flits across in front of us[.]
high-pitched sound (interjection)
zip (third-person singular simple presentzips,present participlezipping,simple past and past participlezipped)
- (transitive) To close with azip fastener.
- (transitive, figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
- (transitive, computing) Tocompress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
- (transitive, programming) To subject to theconvolution mapping function.
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
The bulletzipped through the air.
- (intransitive, colloquial, followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
Zip down to the shops for some milk.
2022 October 24,Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on27 October 2022:Despite writing that can be confusing — we are not told, for example, how Oishi’s group of 56 ronin ended up just 47, or maybe a supertitlezipped by too quickly — the story moves at a steady clip. And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective.
- (transitive) To make (something) move quickly
2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, inBBC Sport[2], archived fromthe original on28 October 2019:Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaartzipping passes around to little effect.
- To travel on azipline.
- (UK politics) To offer a list ofalternatelymale andfemalecandidates in an attempt to address the shortage of women.
- (close with a zip fastener):zip up
to close with a zip fastener
to close as if with a zip fastener
to convert a computer file into a smaller package
to move rapidly with a high-pitched sound
zip (pluralzips)
- Ellipsis ofzip code.
zip
- zipper
- Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993),Haitian Creole-English Dictionary[3], Dunwoody Press,→ISBN
- IPA(key): /ˈʑip/
- Rhymes:-ip
- Syllabification:zip
zip
- second-personsingularimperative ofzipać
zip m (pluralzips)
- (computing)zip
