Crossword clues for wrapping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrap \Wrap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrappedor Wrapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrapping.] [OE. wrappen, probably akin to E. warp.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. The material in which something is wrapped vb. (present participle of wrap English)
WordNet
v. arrange or fold as a cover or protection; "wrap the baby before taking her out"; "Wrap the present" [syn: wrap up] [ant: unwrap]
wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool" [syn: wind, roll, twine] [ant: unwind]
enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, enclose]
See wrap
Wikipedia
In computer graphics, wrapping is the process of limiting a position to an area. A good example of wrapping is wallpaper, a single pattern repeated indefinitely over a wall. Wrapping is used in 3D computer graphics to repeat a texture over a polygon, eliminating the need for large textures or multiple polygons.
To wrap a position x to an area of width w, calculate the value $x' \equiv x \pmod{w}$.
Wrapping may refer to:
- Buddy wrapping, the act of bandaging a damaged (particularly a fractured) finger or toe together with a healthy one
- Overwrap, a wrapping of items in a package of a wrapping over packaging
- Wrapping (graphics), the process of limiting a position to an area in computer graphics
- Wrapping (overflow), a variable that exceeds its maximum value in computing
- Wrapping paper, paper used for wrapping a gift
- "Wrapping", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
- Window capping or wrapping, the covering of wooden trim on buildings with aluminum or vinyl.
Usage examples of "wrapping".
And there are always profiteers exploiting loopholes, sneaking adware materials onto private property and then wrapping themselves up in the law.
On the starboard side of the control room, starting at the forward starboard bulkhead and wrapping around aft, was the attack center, a group of firecontrol consoles and seats for the officers manning them.
Wrapping the reins more securely around his fist, Alec coaxed the nervous mare along with soothing words as her hooves struck loose stones.
It pervades the whole animal fabric as areolar tissue, which is the universal packing and wrapping material.
To the left of the door were leather cases, piled one upon the other, a set of fur leg wrappings astand beside the cases, as though recently left.
At the last one, the hearth of the Aurochs, she saw Deegie standing near the fireplace brushing her rich chestnut hair back and wrapping it into a bun while she talked to someone on a bed platform.
Sarah finished washing Biffin the sink and, wrapping him in a towel, gave him to Olivia to hold while she fetched his pyjamas from the stove.
Wrapping them tightly round Blinky, he crawled out of the fowl-house with a struggling, kicking bundle under his arm.
The thing even felt like a baby as she carried it along the street, Burdock, in his impatience with details, having stripped off the wrapping, which like all wrappings had untidily come undone.
I handed it to her immediately without saying a word, and wrapping the little I possessed in my handkerchief I came back here, where I arrived half an hour since.
Neutrally Buoyant First Order Ubiquitous Climax Clade Gas-Giant Dwellers, to grant them a still more painfully precise specification - were large creatures of immense age who lived within the deliriously complex and topologically vast civilisation of great antiquity which was distributed throughout the cloud layers wrapping the enormous gas-giant planet, a habitat that was as stupendous in scale as it was changeable in aerography.
The Dewan half guessed what was in the air, but he blinked his big eyes solemnly, and reaching for a small lacquer box took from it a Ran leaf, with a finger smeared some ground lime on it, and wrapping the leaf around a piece of betel-nut popped it into his capacious mouth.
Reluctantly, Eric set aside his work, wrapping it tightly in a painted doeskin to keep it safe.
She floated, lightly tethered, in the gentle stream blowing out of the air chair, slim graceful body semi-foetal, arms waving, her long, end-tied chestnut hair blossoming above her like a cobra hood, wrapping over her head then wafting back again.
Eyes wide with anticipation, the child tore off the wrappings to uncover a doll dressed in a floaty sari of sparkling green gauze.