Zip vs. Archive — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Zip and Archive
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Zip
A brief sharp hissing sound.
Archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records – in any media – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization.
Zip
Energy; vim
I just don't have any zip today.
Archive
Often archives A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest
Old land deeds in the municipal archives.
Zip
A zipper.
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Archive
A long-term storage area, often on magnetic tape, for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use.
Zip
(Slang) Nothing; nil; zero
He knows zip about the restaurant business.
Archive
A file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer.
Zip
To move with a sharp hissing sound.
Archive
A repository for stored memories or information
The archive of the mind.
Zip
To move or act with a speed that suggests such a sound
The cars zipped by endlessly.
Archive
To place or store in an archive.
Zip
To act or proceed swiftly and energetically
Zipped through her homework.
Archive
(Computers) To copy or compress (a file) into an archive.
Zip
To become fastened or unfastened by a zipper
The dress zips up the back.
Archive
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
Zip
To cause to move with speed and force
Zipped the ball to a teammate.
Archive
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
Zip
To fasten or unfasten with a zipper
Zipped up his jacket.
Archive
(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
Soil archive
Peat archive
Zip
The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Archive
(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.
I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
Zip
(informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
Archive
The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.
Zip
A zip fastener.
Archive
Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.
Zip
(slang) Zero; nothing.
I know zip about economics.
Archive
A depository containing historical records and documents
Zip
A trip on a zipline.
Archive
Put into an archive
Zip
A zip file.
Zip
(programming) convolution
Zip
(slang) An ounce of marijuana.
Zip
(onomatopoeia) Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Zip
(transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
Zip
To close as if with a zip fastener.
Zip one's lip
Zip
To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
Zip
To subject to the convolution mapping function.
Zip
To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
The bullet zipped through the air.
Zip
To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
Zip down to the shops for some milk.
Zip
(transitive) To make (something) move quickly
Zip
To travel on a zipline.
Zip
A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.
Zip
To make, or move with, such a sound.
Zip
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
Zip
A fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
Zip
Close with a zipper;
Zip up your jacket--it's cold
Zip
Move very fast;
The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed
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