wrap
/ɹæp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
Transitive verb
verb
To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper."
- "I then dried these over a flame, and then, wrapping the formes and re-sealing them with my court seals — for my only commission, you see, was to report as to whether the type was unpied, and text ungarbled, and the formes all ready […]"
- "A snake wraps itself around its prey."
- "Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
- "The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled. The Science Foundation team had then moved on to a deep translucent blue seam in the ice that proved to be a window on the rest of the ungulant herd standing poised in suspended animation, as if waiting for time to start again."
- "wise poets that wrap truth in tales"
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, develop. Also compare Latin verber (“whip, lash”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹæp/
- British English: /ɹæp/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
gift-wrap
not wrapped too tight
riddle wrapped up in an enigma
shrink-wrap
shrink-wrapped
soft-wrap
wrap around
wrap around one's little finger