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Definition of "unpack" []

  • To remove the contents of (a suitcase, for example). (verb-transitive)
  • To remove from a container, from packaging, or from packing. (verb-transitive)
  • To remove a pack from (a pack animal). (verb-transitive)
  • To unpack objects from a container. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unpack" in a sentence
  • "The default stub calls unpack (), you see, and PHP 6 needs to be told that the second argument to unpack () is a binary string and not a Unicode string."
  • "Dismantling Brown's district would have the side effect, of course, of allowing Democrats to "unpack" the district, taking its many Democratic voters and spreading them around nearby districts, creating three or four Democratic-leaning districts where there is currently just one solidly Democratic district."
  • ""In order to give Democrats their fair share of seats, you'd have to 'unpack' urban Democratic neighborhoods by drawing long, narrow districts that start in the urban core and extend into the outer suburbs and rural periphery," says Dr. Chen, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan."