Zip vs. Gzip

Zipnoun

The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.

Gzipverb

To compress using the gzip program.

Zipnoun

(informal) Energy; vigor; vim.

Gzip

gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (the is from ).

‘g’; ‘GNU’;

Zipnoun

A zip fastener.

Zipnoun

(slang) Zero; nothing.

‘I know zip about economics.’;

Zipnoun

A trip on a zipline.

Zipnoun

A zip file.

Zipnoun

(programming) type of mapping function

Zipnoun

(slang) An ounce of marijuana.

Zipnoun

(US) A ZIP code; a US postal code.

Zipnoun

Any postal code, for any country.

Zippronoun

(slang) Zero; nothing.

‘I know zip about economics.’;

Zipinterjection

The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.

Zipverb

(transitive) To close with a zip fastener.

Zipverb

To close as if with a zip fastener.

‘zip one's lip’;

Zipverb

To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.

Zipverb

To subject to the convolution mapping function.

Zipverb

(intransitive) (followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.

‘The bullet zipped through the air.’;

Zipverb

(followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).

‘Zip down to the shops for some milk.’;

Zipverb

(transitive) To make (something) move quickly

Zipverb

To travel on a zipline.

Zipnoun

A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.

Zipverb

To make, or move with, such a sound.

Zipnoun

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’;

Zipnoun

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

Zipverb

close with a zipper;

‘Zip up your jacket--it's cold’;

Zipverb

move very fast;

‘The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed’;