zip

«zip» in Mova's school dictionary: a fastener with two rows of small teeth that join when… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a zip, zips); verb (zip, zips, zipped, zipping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A zip is a fastener with two rows of small teeth that join when you pull a tab, used on coats, bags and trousers (zipper in American English). tree →

2) To zip something means to close it with a zip. tree →

3) To zip means to move very fast. tree →

4) In computing, to zip files means to squash them into a smaller file. tree →

5) Zip can mean nothing or zero in informal American speech. tree →

6) A zip file is a computer file that has been squashed into a smaller size, and its name ends in .zip. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life you zip up your coat; in stories something zips past quickly. Phrases: «zip up», «zip your lip» (be quiet), «zip line», «zip file», «zip code» (US postcode).

examples

• Zip up your coat, it's cold. tree →
• The zip on my bag is broken. tree →
• A car zipped past us. tree →
• We went down the zip line at camp. tree →
• He zipped the files and emailed them. tree →
• The score was six to zip. tree →
• What's your zip code? tree →

note

Double p: zipped, zipping. Zip (UK, Australia) = zipper (US). Zip code = US postcode. Safety: zip lines need a harness and an adult in charge.

In the corpora

• Think of a python in a museum skeleton: it looks like a long zip with a rib on each side of every tooth.
• You learn your postcode or ZIP code, because it helps letters to be delivered quickly.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «zip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.