Definition of Zip

A cartoon character looking like a postman printed on the margins of U.S. stamps and bopklet panes since 1963. The man is referred to as Mr. Zip and is used to encourage people to use the Zone Improvement Plan code. It is always collected attached to the postage stamp.

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zip
\zip\ (?), n. [imitative.] a hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.
zip
\zip\, v. i. to make, or move with, such a sound.
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]


2. a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab [syn: slide fastener, zipper, zip-fastener]
v 1: close with a zipper; "zip up your jacket--it's cold" [syn: zip up , zipper]
[ant: unzip] 2: move very fast; "the runner zipped past us at breakneck speed" [syn: travel rapidly, speed, hurry]

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 zip gun 
 zip up 
 zip file 
 zip-fastener 
 zip drive 
 zip by 
 zip code 

close, shut tight Mom told me to zip my lips while the preacher is talking.

close, shut tight; go quickly, run; (zip/zippo) nothing, zero, nada 

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Mom told me to zip my lips while the preacher is talking.
After we deliver the flowers we can zip over to the bank.

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nothing; zero: “a score of zip”

1. cocaine
2. a grade or mark of zero; also zippo 
3. nothing

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Noun
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"
(synonym) nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch
(hypernym) relative quantity
(hyponym) nihil
2. a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
(synonym) slide fastener, zipper, zip-fastener
(hypernym) fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
(part-holonym) cardigan
(derivation) zip up, zipper

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Verb
1. close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold"
(synonym) zip up, zipper
(hypernym) fasten, fix, secure
(derivation) slide fastener, zipper, zip-fastener
2. move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
(synonym) travel rapidly, speed, hurry
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) flit, flutter, fleet, dart

Zone Information Protocol

Zone Information Protocol (AppleTalk)

A way of compressing a program or documents onto a small storage media.

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(2) two operator period;
(3) general periods only;
(4) reduced single operator periods;
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Compressed File (file name extension) [PKWare]

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Compressed File (file name extension) [PKWare]

A software program that compresses files so that they can be transmitted quickly to be uncompressed (unzipped) later by the recipient. 

vt. [primarily MS-DOS] 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.

Zip Files contain vast amounts of information that has undergone compression to reduce the amount of space that the data take up. This File Type is very popular on the Internet as an application that, for example, requires 5 megabytes of disk space can be compressed into a 2 megabyte zip file that is obviously quicker to download. An Application program called PKZIP can compress data into a zip file & extract the contents from a zip file. Zip files have a file extension of zip.

A compressed file format (.zip). Many files available on the Internet are compressed or zipped in order to reduce storage space and transfer times. To uncompress the file, you need a utility like PKZip <http://www.squareonetech.com/glossry2.html> (DOS) or WinZip (Windows).

Files that have been compressed using the PKZIP program have this filename extension.They can be decompressed using the PKUNZIP utility.

Windows users will see this term a lot when looking for files on the Internet. In most cases, it refers to a "zipped" or compressed file. For example, when you download a file, if the filename looks like this: "filename.zip", you are downloading a zipped file. "Zipping" a file is compressing one or more files into a smaller archive so that they take up less space on your hard drive and take less time to transfer to another computer. This is why nearly all Windows files that you find on the Internet are compressed. To use a zipped file, however, you'll need to unzip it first. PKZIP, for DOS, or WinZip for Windows, are some popular programs that can unzip files for ya. Fortunately, they can be downloaded for free off shareware sites on the web. Macintosh files are most often "stuffed" into Stuff-it files (.sit), which can be "unstuffed" using Aladdin's Stuff-it Expander. The term "Zip" also refers to a product from Iomega. The company makes a removable storage device called a Zip Drive. It holds 100 and 250 MB Zip disks. Zip drives are usually used for backup and for transferring large files to different locations. However, they aren't as fast as hard drives, so most people don't run programs off them.

A particular format of compressed file corresponding to the WinZip application.

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