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Zip vs. Archive — What's the Difference?

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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