wrap

See also: Wrap

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: răp, IPA^(key): /ɹæp/

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• Rhymes: -æp
• Homophone: rap

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

wrap (third-person singular simple present wraps, present participle wrapping, simple past and past participle wrapped or (archaic) wrapt)

1. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
2. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.

   A snake wraps itself around its prey.

   • (Can we date this quote by Bryant and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

3. (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
   • (Can we date this quote by Carew and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     wise poets that wrap truth in tales

4. (transitive or intransitive, video production) 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. (lines, words, text, etc.) 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. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
7. (transitive) 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.

Quotations

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:wrap.

Synonyms

• (enclose in fabric, paper, etc): enfold, lap

Antonyms

• unwrap

Derived terms

• soft-wrap
• wrap-around
• wrappable
• wrapper
• wrapping

 

Related terms

• wrap around
• wrap around one's little finger
• wrap up

Translations

to enclose completely in fabric, paper, etc

• Arabic: لَفَّ‎ (laffa), غَلَّفَ‎ (ḡallafa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: মেৰিওৱা (meriüa)
• Azerbaijani: bükmək (az)
• Catalan: embolicar (ca) (Algherese)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包裝 (zh), 包装 (zh) (bāozhuāng), 包 (zh) (bāo)

• Danish: pakke ind
• Dutch: inpakken (nl), omhullen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: pakka inn
• Finnish: kääriä (fi)
• French: envelopper (fr), emballer (fr)
• Galician: envurullar (gl), embalar (gl), envolver
• Gallurese: imbulicà
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: wickeln (de), einwickeln (de), einpacken (de), hüllen (de), umhüllen (de)
• Greek: τυλίγω (el) (tylígo)
• Hebrew: כרך‎ (he) (karákh), עטף‎ (he) (atáf)
• Hindi: लपेटना (hi) (lapeṭnā)
• Icelandic: pakka inn
• Italian: avvolgere (it), avviluppare (it), incartare (it), impacchettare (it)
• Japanese: 包む (ja) (つつむ, tsutsumu), 包装する (ja) (ほうそうする, hōsō suru)
• Kabuverdianu: inbrudja
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 싸다 (ko) (ssada)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Ligurian: incastunò
• Low German:

  German Low German: wrümpeln

• Maori: tākai, takai, takaore (a rope around something), whakakopa, kōpaki, niko (a rope around something), ruruku,
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: patchi
• Persian: بسته‌بندی کردن‎ (baste-bandi kardan), پیچیدن‎ (fa) (pičidan)
• Polish: zawijać (pl) impf, zawinąć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: embalar (pt), empacotar (pt), embrulhar (pt)
• Romanian: înfășura (ro), împacheta (ro)
• Russian: завора́чивать (ru) impf (zavoráčivatʹ), заверну́ть (ru) pf (zavernútʹ), обора́чивать (ru) impf (oboráčivatʹ), оберну́ть (ru) pf (obernútʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese: imboligare

• Sassarese: imbolicare, imburigà
• Spanish: envolver (es), fajar (es)
• Swedish: slå in (sv), paketera (sv), emballera (sv), linda in, klä in
• Thai: ห่อ (th) (hɔ̀ɔ)
• Vietnamese: gói (vi), bao (vi)
• Westrobothnian: veip
• Yiddish: וויקלען‎ (viklen), הילן‎ (hiln)

to enclose or coil around an object or organism

• Finnish: kiertää (fi)

• Maori: niko

figuratively: to conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide

• Finnish: kätkeä (fi)

to finish shooting a video, television show, or movie

• Finnish: purkittaa (fi)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

wrap (plural wraps)

1. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
2. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
3. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
   • 1994, Olivia Goldsmith, Fashionably Late:

     But she could knock off right after the wrap, have dinner, and take a later flight.

   • 2003 January 12, “Encore Presentation: Interview With the Bee Gees”, in CNN_KingWknd:

     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

   • 2009 November 14, Fox News Watch:

     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.'

4. A wraparound mortgage.

Translations

garment

• Czech: přehoz m, plášť (cs) m
• Dutch: omslag (nl)
• Finnish: peitto (fi)
• French: écharpe (fr) f, foulard (fr) m
• German: Schal (de) m, Umhang (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: περιβόλαιον n (peribólaion)

• Italian: scialle (it) m, sciarpa (it) f, cappotto (it) m

• Maori: hikurere
• Romanian: șal (ro) n, veșmânt înfășurător (ro) n
• Russian: шаль (ru) f (šalʹ)
• Spanish: chal (es) m
• Swedish: skynke (sv) n, sjal (sv) c

food

• Finnish: rulla (fi), wrap (fi), wrappi
• French: crêpe (fr) f, wrap (fr) m
• Georgian: კრეპი (ḳreṗi), ვრეპი (vreṗi) (colloquial)

• Italian: rotolo (it) m, sandwich arrotolato m
• Spanish: wrap (es) m
• Swedish: wrap (sv) c, crêpe (sv) c

the completion of all or a major part of a performance

Noun

wrap (plural wraps)

1. (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”)

Anagrams

• warp

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈræp/, [ˈræp]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋræp/, [ˈʋræp]

Noun

wrap

1. wrap (food)

Declension

Declension of wrap (type risti) singular plural nominative wrap wrapit genitive wrapin wrappien partitive wrappiä wrappejä accusative wrap wrapin wrapit inessive wrapissä wrapeissä elative wrapistä wrapeistä illative wrappiin wrappeihin adessive wrapillä wrapeillä ablative wrapiltä wrapeiltä allative wrapille wrapeille essive wrappinä wrappeinä translative wrapiksi wrapeiksi instructive – wrapein abessive wrapittä wrapeittä comitative – wrappeineen

Synonyms

• rulla
• wrappi

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French

Etymology

From English wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁap/, /vʁap/
• Homophones: rap, râpe

Noun

wrap m (plural wraps)

1. wrap (sandwich)