unpack

1. (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.Examples: "They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner."transitive

2. (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.Examples: "They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner."intransitive

3. (figurative, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.Examples: "There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes."; "Yet few Americans — including the president — understand how global trade works, both how it can help our economy and how some can be left behind. Let’s try to unpack a few of the complexities."; "From a gender reveal to a secret ceremony and rifts with other royal family members, there was a lot to unpack from the interview"figurativelytransitive

4. (linguistics, intransitive, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.Examples: "The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]"; "Whereas the high vowels /ʏ, y/ unpack, the mid vowels /œ, ø/ are adapted as single segments in these languages (see examples in (36) for Vietnamese (Barker 1969) and (37) for Fon (Gbeto 2000)). […] French /y/ → Vietnamese /wi/ accu [a'ky] → ac-quy [ak kwi]"; "The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them."intransitive

5. (computing, transitive) To decompress (data).Examples: "Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]"transitive