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" [syn: {nothing},

{nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose

egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}]

2: a device for locking together two toothed edges by means of

a sliding tab [syn: {slide fastener}, {zipper}, {zip-fastener}]

v 1: close with a zipper [syn: {zip up}, {zipper}] [ant: {unzip}]

2: move very fast [syn: {travel rapidly}, {speed}, {hurry}]

zip

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}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1996-08-26)