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zip [n]

1)	a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

Synonyms :

aught cipher cypher goose_egg nada naught nil nix nothing null zero zilch

See Also:

relative_quantity zero nihil bugger_all

2)	a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

Synonyms :

slide_fastener zip-fastener zipper

See Also:

fastener cardigan dress pants skirt

zip [v]

1)	close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold"

Synonyms :

zip_up zipper

See Also:

fasten slide_fastener unzip

2)	move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"

Synonyms :

hurry speed travel_rapidly

See Also:

go haste hurrying speed fastness accelerate dart run whizz

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. 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. Zip Drive.

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(1996-08-26)

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