wrap

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   arrange or fold as a cover or protection

   You should wrap the baby before taking them out.

2. 2
   verb

   crash into so as to coil around

   The teenager wrapped the new car around a fire hydrant.

3. 3
   verb

   To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

   Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.

4. 4
   verb

   To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.

   A snake wraps itself around its prey.

5. 5
   verb

   To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.

   wise poets that wrap truth in tales

6. 6
   verb

   To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.

   To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)

7. 7
   verb

   To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line

   I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.

8. 8
   verb

   To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.

   The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.

Etymology

From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend”). Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop,…