The Collaborative Dictionary

Wrap \Wrap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrappedor Wrapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrapping.] [OE. wrappen, probably akin to E. warp. [root]144. Cf. Warp.] [1913 Webster]

To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. [1913 Webster] Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. --John xx. 6,

[1913 Webster] Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]

To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up. [1913 Webster] I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. [1913 Webster] Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. --Carew. [1913 Webster] To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. [1913 Webster] Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

wrap

1 cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person [syn: wrapper]

2 a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla

3 the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped [syn: wrapping, wrapper]

1 arrange or fold as a cover or protection; "wrap the baby before taking her out"; "Wrap the present" [syn: wrap up] [ant: unwrap]

2 wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool" [syn: wind, roll, twine] [ant: unwind]

3 enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, enclose] [also: wrapping, wrapped]

wrapping

1 the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped [syn: wrap, wrapper]

2 an enveloping bandage [syn: swathe]

wrapping See wrap

Moby Thesaurus

ambient, bandage, bandaging, binder, binding, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, cementwork, circling, circumambient, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, cloaking, clouding, coating, coverage, covering, curtaining, dust jacket, eclipse, eclipsing, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enfolding, envelope, enveloping, envelopment, environing, enwrapment, enwrapping, gift wrapping, hiding, incrustation, jacket, laying on, mantling, masking, neighboring, obduction, obscuring, occultation, overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, peripheral, plasterwork, roundabout, screening, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, stuccowork, suburban, superimposition, superposition, surrounding, upholstering, upholstery, veiling, wrap, wrapper

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æpɪŋ

Noun

1. The material in which something is wrapped

• Wrapping (overflow), a variable that exceeds its maximum value in computing
• Wrapping (graphics), the process of limiting a position to an area in computer graphics
• Wrapping paper, paper used for wrapping a gift
• Word wrapping, a feature supported by most text editors that allows them to insert soft returns at the right-side margins of a document
• Mandrel wrapping, a technique used to modify the modal distribution of a propagating optical signal in multimode fiber optics
• Buddy wrapping, the act of bandaging a damaged (particularly a fractured) finger or toe together with a healthy one
• Wire wrapping, a technique for constructing small numbers of complex electronics assemblies
• Wrap
• Rapping