wrap

Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.

Noun

  1. Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.

    1. (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.

      • The media theorist Peter Lunenfeld[…] says illustrative art is often used to defang threatening technology. He compares the Waymo wraps to Google Doodles, which distract people while they are using a complex and opaque...
  2. A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
  3. An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
    • ‘I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here,’ she said, seating herself comfortably, throwing back her wraps, and showing a thin but well-built figure. - 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 6:
  4. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
  5. The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
    • But she could knock off right after the wrap, have dinner, and take a later flight. - 1994, Olivia Goldsmith, Fashionably Late:
    • The first time I met him is when we went to the – after the wrap party, we went to a little sound room – or a little screening room and watched the preview - 2003 January 12, “Encore Presentation: Interview With the Bee...
    • And that's a wrap on "News Watch." For Judy, Jim, Cal and Kirsten, I'm Jon Scott. We'll see you again next week.' - 2009 November 14, Fox News Watch:
  6. A wraparound mortgage.
  7. A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
    • This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap. - 2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast...
    • Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package. - 2005, Ted White, Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 245:

    Synonyms: package

  8. The act of wrapping.
    • Give the present a quick wrap before James sees it.
    • I started out by wrapping the first thread around a ruler for 1 inch and found that it had 24 wraps to the inch. - 2026, Tom Knisley, “Exploring S- and Z-Twist”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 42:
  9. A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.

    Coordinate Terms: inside straight draw up and down straight draw open ended straight draw gut-shot straight

Origin

From Middle English wrappe, from the verb (see above).

Forms

wraps

Derived

alpha wrap body wrap book wrap breakfast wrap bubble wrap bubble-wrap cash wrap cling wrap cling-wrap daily wrap diaper wrap evening wrap fish wrap fish-wrap food wrap gift-wrap giftwrap glad wrap nappy wrap omega wrap saran-wrap saran wrap Saran wrap spider wrap

Noun Australia, alt of

  1. Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).

Forms

wraps

Verb

  1. To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
    • Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.
    • I then dried these over a flame, and then, wrapping the formes and re-sealing them with my court seals — for my only commission, you see, was to report as to whether the type was unpied, and text ungarbled, and the...

    Synonyms: bind wind

  2. To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
    • A snake wraps itself around its prey.
    • Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. - 1811, William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis:
    • The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled. The Science Foundation team had then moved on to a deep translucent blue seam in the ice that proved to be...
  3. To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
    • wise poets that wrap truth in tales - a. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened:
  4. To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
    • To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)
  5. To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
    • I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.
  6. To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
  7. To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
    • The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.

Origin

From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend”). Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop, develop. Also compare Latin verber (“whip, lash”).

Forms

wraps wrapping wrapped wrapt wrop

Synonyms

enfold lap enswathe envelop

Antonyms

unwrap

Derived

gift-wrap not wrapped too tight riddle wrapped up in an enigma shrink-wrap shrink-wrapped soft-wrap wrap around wrap around one's little finger wrap-around wraparound wrap in cotton wool wrap in the flag wrap it before you tap it wrap one's arms around wrap one's brain around wrap one's head around wrap one's mind around wrappable wrapper wrapping wrapround wrap-round wrap-up wrap up