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Wrapping definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WRAPPING, ppr.
1. Winding; folding; involving; inclosing.
2. a. Used or designed for wrapping or covering; as wrapping paper.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped [syn: wrapping, wrap, wrapper]
2: an enveloping bandage [syn: swathe, wrapping]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century something used to wrap an object ; wrapper

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (esp. in pl.) material used to wrap; wraps, wrappers. Phrases and idioms: wrapping paper strong or decorative paper for wrapping parcels.

Webster's 1913 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.] 1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. 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, 7. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant. 2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up. I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. --Milton. 3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. --Carew. To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. --Addison. Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. --Locke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(wrappings) Wrapping is something such as paper or plastic which is used to cover and protect something. ...food wrapping... N-VAR

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