blues vs zip

blues

noun
  • The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea. 

  • Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic). 

  • One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced. 

  • New South Wales. 

  • Manchester City FC. 

  • A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale. 

  • Carlton Football Club. 

  • A musical composition following blues forms. 

  • Everton FC. 

  • A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored. 

  • Chelsea FC. 

  • A feeling of sadness or depression. 

  • Birmingham City FC. 

zip

noun
  • Energy; vigor; vim. 

  • The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air. 

  • An ounce of marijuana. 

  • Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”) 

  • Zero; nothing. 

  • A zip fastener. 

  • A trip on a zipline. 

  • A zip file. 

verb
  • To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound. 

  • To close as if with a zip fastener. 

  • To subject to the convolution mapping function. 

  • To make (something) move quickly 

  • To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format. 

  • To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place). 

  • To travel on a zipline. 

  • To close with a zip fastener. 

intj
  • Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air. 

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