[syn: travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Zip \Zip\, v. i.
To make, or move with, a sound like a zip[1].
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Zip \Zip\ (z[i^]p), n. [Imitative.]
1. A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying
bullet.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a quantity of no importance. [informal]
Syn: nothing, nihil, nichts, nix, nada, aught, cipher,
cypher, goose egg, naught, nil, zero, zilch.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a device for locking together two toothed edges by means
of a sliding tab.
Syn: slide fastener, zipper, zip-fastener.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
2: a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid
in the sorting of mail [syn: ZIP code, ZIP, postcode,
postal code]
3: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's
full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip]
4: a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of
a sliding tab [syn: slide fastener, zip, zipper, zip
fastener]
v 1: close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" [syn:
zip up, zipper, zip] [ant: unzip]
2: move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck
speed" [syn: travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
154 Moby Thesaurus words for "zip":
aggressiveness, animal spirits, animation, assibilate,
assibilation, ball the jack, bang, barrel, bite, boom, bowl along,
breeze, breeze along, briskness, brush, bustle, buzz,
capersomeness, clip, coltishness, cut along, dash, drive,
effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, elan, enterprise, esprit,
exuberance, fire, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fleet, flit, fly,
fly low, foot, frication, frictional rustling, friskiness,
frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, get-up-and-go,
ginger, go fast, gusto, guts, hasten, heartiness, highball, hiss,
hissing, hotness, hush, hushing, hustle, initiative, kick, life,
lisp, liveliness, make knots, nip, nippiness, outstrip the wind,
pep, pepper, pepperiness, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness,
poop, pour it on, punch, push, raciness, relish, rhonchus, rip,
rollicksomeness, rompishness, rush, scorch, shush, shushing,
sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing,
sizz, sizzle, sizzling, skim, skittishness, snap, snappiness,
sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle,
speed, spice, spiciness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, spit,
splutter, sportiveness, sprightliness, spunk, sputter, squash,
squelch, squish, starch, sternutation, stertor, storm along, sweep,
swish, tang, tear along, thrust, thunder along, verve, vigor, vim,
vitality, vivacity, waltz, wheeze, whish, whisk, whistle,
whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zest, zestfulness, zing,
zoom
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
ZIP
Zone Information Protocol (AppleTalk)
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
ZIP
Zigzag Inline Package (VRAM)
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
zip
vt.
[primarily MS-DOS/Windows] To create a compressed archive from a group of
files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver. Its use is spreading
now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written.
Commonly used as follows: ?I'll zip it up and send it to you.? See tar and
feather.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
zip
PK
zip file
zipped
zipped file
1. A compressed archive
containing one or more files, the act of creating it and its
filename extension. Originally, such a "zip file" was
created using PKWare, Inc.'s PKZIP utility program for
MS-DOS.
Due to the popularity of the original program, the format has
spread to Windows, Unix and other operating systems and
the function is often built into file managers.
unzip is the corresponding de-archiver or the act of
extracting files from an archive.
The first two bytes of a zip file are the ASCII characters
"PK" after Phil Katz who developed the original PKZIP.
See also gzip, tar and feather.
(1996-08-26)
2. Zip Drive.
[Jargon File]
3. zip function.
(2017-02-26)