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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wrapper
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
candy
▪ Thrown away like a candy wrapper, thrown away like trash.
▪ His eyelids crackle like candy wrappers.
▪ Print your music on candy wrappers or on the backs of daguerreotypes.
▪ But when he walked over to it, he saw that it was only a candy wrapper.
▪ His knapsack and sketch pad and sleeping bag lay on the floor, candy wrappers scattered around them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a candy wrapper
▪ chewing-gum wrappers
▪ The empty stadium was littered with burger wrappers and empty cans.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets, and cigarette butts.
▪ His eyelids crackle like candy wrappers.
▪ I suggest you purchase the wrappers.
▪ Mars Inc. had a wrapper problem it wanted to keep under wraps.
▪ She saw a box of cigarettes with matches tucked into the wrapper.
▪ The satin was perfect, had not even been removed from its muslin wrappers.
▪ Used to crawl out on the roof in that little pink wrapper, but not anymore.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrapper

Wrapper \Wrap"per\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, wraps.

  2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.

  3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wrapper

late 15c., "piece of fine cloth used for wrapping bread," agent noun from wrap (v.). Meaning "disposable protective covering" is from 1808.

Wiktionary
wrapper

n. 1 Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping. 2 An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown. 3 One who, or that which, wraps. 4 (context computing English) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.

WordNet
wrapper
  1. n. a loose dressing gown for women [syn: negligee, neglige, peignoir, housecoat]

  2. the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped [syn: wrapping, wrap]

  3. cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person [syn: wrap]

Wikipedia
Wrapper

Wrapper generally refers to a type of packaging, such as a flat sheet made out of paper, cellophane or plastic to enclose an object.

Wrapper may also refer to:

  • Wrapper (clothing), both a woman's garment which is worn over nightwear or lingerie in North America, and a colorful women's garment widely worn in West Africa
  • Wrapper, the outer leaf of tobacco used in cigar making
  • Newspaper wrapper
  • The Dust jacket of a hardcover book
  • Wrapper (philately), postal stationery which pays the delivery cost of a newspaper or a periodical
Wrapper (clothing)

The wrapper, lappa, or pagne is a colorful women's garment widely worn in West Africa. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored ensembles. The formality of the wrapper depends on the fabric used to create it.

Wrapper (data mining)

Wrapper in data mining is a program that extracts content of a particular information source and translates it into a relational form. Many web pages present structured data - telephone directories, product catalogs, etc. formatted for human browsing using HTML language. Structured data are typically descriptions of objects retrieved from underlying databases and displayed in Web pages following some fixed templates. Software systems using such resources must translate HTML content into a relational form. Wrappers are commonly used as such translators. Formally, a wrapper is a function from a page to the set of tuples it contains.

Wrapper (philately)

In philately a wrapper is a form of postal stationery which pays the cost of the delivery of a newspaper or a periodical. The wrapper is a sheet of paper, large enough to wrap around a folded or rolled newspaper and with an imprinted stamp to pay the cost of postage. Some catalogs and reference books refer to a wrapper as postal bands which comes from the French term bandes postale. Still others refer to it as a newspaper wrapper or periodical wrapper.

Usage examples of "wrapper".

It took Mum a long time to get ready and while she powdered her face and arranged the elaborate ornamented folds of her head-gear and dug out her necklaces and bangles, her wrappers and white shoes, and plaited her hair hurriedly in the mirror, Dad was already asleep on his three-legged chair.

She wore a new lace blouse, an expensive wrapper, coral beads round her neck, and copper bangles round her wrists.

The same dumpster had yielded four Sweet and Innocent honey candy suckers, smashed, but still in their wrappers.

The shiny parts are the inside of the shell and the gleamy eyes are bits of a toffee wrapper he found in the street.

Littlepage, in a prim nightgown of white nainsook beneath a lavender flannel wrapper.

Victoria, with mild astonishment, while she stepped out of her felt slippers, placed her lavender flannel wrapper at the foot of the bed, and stretched her unconfined body, in the nainsook night-gown, between the fleecy blankets and embroidered sheets.

He stripped off the wrapper, and the bayonet which had killed the numismatist was revealed, blood-clotted and ugly.

Epeirae does not extend beyond the wrapper, which is an obtuse cone in the one case and a balloon in the other.

In spite of her notions of decency, she was glad of his intrusion, and, being in no condition to observe punctilios, slipped on a wrapper, opened the door, and, with a faltering voice, owned herself frightened almost to distraction.

He went in and got a number of the catalogues and other advertisements, and addressed them then and there, in a wrapper the seedsman gave him, to Miss Barbara F.

All this time Snubby Nose sat up in his pink wrapper drinking tea out of a pink cup and eating pink wintergreen candy.

Whilst the Sultan took his seat upon the raised mud-bench, the slaves held up two wrappers or barracans, to shield his highness from public view whilst he took his seat.

The games arcade is as stuffed as ever, the floor strewn with Woozle Pup wrappers and crunched clear plastic bento boxes and chopsticks from The Great Teriyaki Experience!

Lo Manto walked past the pile of empty boxes and strewn wrappers and pushed open a large wooden door.

Miss Marling was pettish over the choice of a morning wrapper, and complained that her chocolate was too sweet.