wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: răp
ipa: /ɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: rap
ipa: /ɹɒp/
ipa: /(w)ræp/
Forms: form: wraps
form: wrapping
form: wrapped
form: wrapped
form: wrapt
form: wrapt
form: wrop
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.
text: 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 formes all ready […]
ref: 1947, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Case of the Barking Clock:
synonyms: bind
wind
glosses: To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
examples: text: A snake wraps itself around its prey.
text: Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
ref: 1811, William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis:
text: 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 a window on the rest of the ungulant herd standing poised in suspended animation, as if waiting for time to start again.
ref: 2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
examples: text: wise poets that wrap truth in tales
ref: a. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened:
glosses: To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
examples: To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)
qualifier: video production
glosses: To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
examples: text: I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.
qualifier: lines; words; text; lines; words; text
glosses: To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
examples: text: The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.
glosses: To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
Synonyms: sense: enclose in fabric, paper, etc
word: enfold
sense: enclose in fabric, paper, etc
word: lap
sense: enclose in fabric, paper, etc
word: enswathe
sense: enclose in fabric, paper, etc
word: envelop
Derived terms: word: gift-wrap
word: not wrapped too tight
word: riddle wrapped up in an enigma
word: shrink-wrap
word: shrink-wrapped
word: soft-wrap
word: wrap around
word: wrap around one's little finger
word: wrap-around
word: wraparound
word: wrap in cotton wool
word: wrap in the flag
word: wrap it before you tap it
word: wrap one's arms around
word: wrap one's head around
word: wrap one's mind around
word: wrappable
word: wrapper
word: wrapping
word: wrapround
word: wrap-round
word: wrap-up
word: wrap up