wrap

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  To wrap the Baby Bunting in
• WordNet 3.6
  • v wrap arrange or fold as a cover or protection "wrap the baby before taking her out","Wrap the present"
  • v wrap arrange or or coil around "roll your hair around your finger","Twine the thread around the spool","She wrapped her arms around the child"
  • v wrap crash into so as to coil around "The teenager wrapped his car around the fire hydrant"
  • v wrap enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering "Fog enveloped the house"
  • n wrap cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
  • n wrap the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
  • n wrap a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
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• Interesting fact: The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896
• • n Wrap A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
  • Wrap 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.""Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up , died in a few days after the death of her daughter.""Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity."
  • Wrap 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."
  • v. t Wrap To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. "Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves."
  • Wrap 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.""Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
    About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
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• Interesting fact: If all the strawberries produced in California annually were put side by side, they would wrap around the Earth fifteen times
• • n wrap In cotton manufacturing, one complete circuit of the measuring mechanism of a warp-beaming machine. The length of the wrap varies according to the details of the mechanism—3,564 yards, more or less.
  • wrap To roll or fold together, as a pliable or flexible object: usually with the preposition around (or round) or about: as, to wrap paper about a book.
  • wrap To envelop; surround; cover by winding something round in folds; muffle: often with up: as, to wrap up a child in its blanket; to wrap the body in flannels.
  • wrap To cover and fasten securely, as in paper or pack-sheet, in order to protect from injury or injurious exposure, as in transit or during storage, or in order to conceal: generally with up: as, to wrap up an umbrella or a book to send by express; to wrap up one's things in a bundle.
  • wrap To conceal by involving or enveloping; hide in a mass of different character; cover up or involve generally.
  • wrap Engrossed in or with; entirely devoted to: as, she is wrapped up in her son; he is wrapped up in his studies.
  • wrap Comprised or involved in, as an effect or consequence.
  • n wrap An article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person, as on a journey; a wrapper. In the plural, the word is applied collectively to all coverings used, in addition to the usual clothing, as a defense against the weather, as cloaks, shawls, scarfs, and railway-rugs.
  • wrap A misspelling of rap.
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• Interesting fact: The banana was officially introduced in 1876 in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The bananas were wrapped in tinfoil and were sold for 10 cents each
• • v.t Wrap rap to roll or fold together: to enfold: hide: to cover by winding something round (often with up)
  • pr.p Wrap wrap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. wrapped
  • n Wrap a wrapper, as a shawl, &c
  • Wrap Same as Rap.
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• Harry Emerson Fosdick

  

  “A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”
• John Ruskin

  

  “When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.”
• Lady Bird Johnson

  

  “Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
• Ralph Bunche

  

  “If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.”
• Winston Churchill

  

  “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]”
• Rudyard Kipling

  

  “He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

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