American English pronunciation
How to pronounce wrapping
IPA transcription: ['ɹæpɪŋ]
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Noun
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the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
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an enveloping bandage
Verb
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arrange or or coil around
“roll your hair around your finger”
“Twine the thread around the spool”
“She wrapped her arms around the child”
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enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
“Fog enveloped the house”
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arrange or fold as a cover or protection
“wrap the baby before taking her out”
“Wrap the present”
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crash into so as to coil around
“The teenager wrapped his car around the fire hydrant”
Usage examples
- Scotch tape, also known as Sellotape, is very useful for wrapping Christmas presents
- It becomes visible only after word wrapping at the end of a line.
- Suzanne Neuhaus, his wife, specialised in decoration and gift wrapping.
- Greaseproof paper is very useful for wrapping sandwiches
- Wrapping up their review of men's mid-life crisis, Alwin and Levenson wrote that ...
- Greaseproof paper is very useful for wrapping sandwiches
- If the annotation is too long, line wrapping may occur.
- A greyish black came over, wrapping itself around the deaf trees.
- I was going to do my wrapping tonight.
- Under certain circumstances, however, word wrapping is not desired.