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Noun zip has 2 senses
- nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip - 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"
--1 is a kind of relative quantity
--1 has particulars:
- slide fastener, zip, zipper, zip-fastener - a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
--2 is a kind of fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
--2 is a part of
Verb zip has 2 senses
- zip up, zipper, zip - close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold"
--1 is one way to fasten, fix, secure
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip - move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
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