Crossword clues for shrink-wrap
shrink-wrap
The Collaborative International Dictionary
shrink-wrap \shrink"-wrap\, shrinkwrap \shrink"wrap\ (shr[i^][ng]k"r[a^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. shrink-wrapped or shrink"wrapped (shr[i^][ng]k"r[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. shrink"wrapping or shrink"-wrapping.] to wrap and seal (an object for sale) in a transparent sheet of plastic material that is shrunken to a tight-fitting wrapping by the application of heat.
shrink-wrap \shrink"-wrap\, shrinkwrap \shrink"wrap\, n. a type of plastic film, usually transparent, that shrinks upon application of heat, and may be used to form a wrapping around objects that fits tightly and closely follows the contours of the wrapped object; -- also called shrink-pack, shrinkpack or shrink-wrapping.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it. 2 The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped. vb. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
Usage examples of "shrink-wrap".
The birdcage still looks shrink-wrapped under a layer of silver insulating foil, and teardrop-shapes are bustling about it, inside and out.
It was an awesome look, an intimidating look, the look of not only Jordan but also one of those wrestlers who has built himself up into a brute of sheer muscle and testosteronethe shaved head, the powerful neck, the bulging shrink-wrapped traps, delts, pecs, lats, and the rest of it.
He wore a scarlet leotardlike garment with a faint diapre pattern of gold that looked as if it had been shrink-wrapped about his muscular body.
Now, it is possible to spend a lot of money on shrink-wrapped development systems with lovely graphical user interfaces and various ergonomic enhancements.
Half a jar of mayo, a bottle of beer, whole-wheat bread covered with blue mold, a head of iceberg lettuce, shrink-wrapped in brown slime and plastic, and a box of hamster nuggets stood between me and starvation.
Yuri risked glancing about, seeing the way in which the jungle had shrink-wrapped itself around the forward half of the boat.
The cops rushed in and shrink-wrapped him, then stood around his body, mummified in glistening plastic, and kicked him and stomped him for a minute or two, then finally cut a hole in the plastic so Tony could breathe.
But when she tried to pick it up, the wig and the kimono came off in one piece, revealing yet another shrink-wrapped replica, this one with delicately painted eyes and a Cupid's-bow mouth.
The entire shrink-wrapping process consumed maybe half a second, and then Bud, mummified in plastic, toppled over face-forward.
In another room, he found a shrink-wrapping machine for doing the really big stuff.
Anything large enough colliding with the inner surface of the funnel caused a lightning-fast wave of deformation, engulfing and shrink-wrapping the intruder.
He took it out and ripped off the shrink-wrapping, forcing the fridge door shut again with his shoulder.
The shrink-wrap was discarded in the low-tech rectangular plastic waste can next to his desk, and the technician inserted the cassette in an ordinary-looking but expensive player that was linked electronically to another teletype machine ten feet away.