单词 | wrap |
释义 | wrap I. transitive verb 1. a. < let him wrap her shoulders in the white shawl — Marcia Davenport > — often used with about, around, or up < he was wrapped up in a blanket — Georg Meyers > b. < the waitress wraps up your table-scraps in a napkin — Corey Ford > < wrapped up in Christmas wrapping paper — Crompton & Royton Chronicle > c. < a store-bought watermelon wrapped in her arms — Eudora Welty > < wrapped in chains — H.E.Rieseberg > d. < wrap a rubber band around the thread tight up against the nut — Gadgets Annual > < wrap a car around a pole — Mel Heimer > < the cold rain wrapped his thin shirt and trousers round his body and legs — Marcia Davenport > < lay down, wrapping the cloak about her — Louis Bromfield > e. < a white mink stole will wrap her — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > 2. obsolete < the napkin … wrapped together in a place by itself — Jn 20:7 (Authorized Version) > 3. a. < the bluffs … wrapped in mist — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < dusk had wrapped the city — T.B.Costain > < store was wrapped in flames — New York Herald Tribune > b. < the sense of fate that wrapped his folktales — Van Wyck Brooks > < the whole thing was wrapped in disgrace — Robert Reid > c. < a boy and girl wrapped in a world of each other — Harold Griffin > < walked along wrapped in my own thoughts — Carolyn Hannay > — usually used with up < wrapped up in a ceremonial veneration of the past — Oscar Handlin > < he was all wrapped up in his daughter — Erle Stanley Gardner > 4. a. < its origin is wrapped in multiplied legends — American Guide Series: Arkansas > — often used with up < the book is overwritten and wrapped up in needless jargon — Sidney Hook > < agriculturists and private utilities equally wrap up their selfish interests in states' rights language — C.H.Pritchett > b. < clouds wrapped the peak from view > 5. < wrapped in the authority of his office — Newsweek > < have become impatient with those … who wrap themselves in the Constitution — Episcopal Churchnews > 6. < as inserts in the printed book, halftone illustrations may be … wrapped around a certain number of text pages — Publisher to Author > 7. < a little brochure was designed to wrap up a selling message along with some more information — Printers' Ink > < wraps up two important driving conveniences … into one handy accessory — Buick Magazine > intransitive verb 1. a. < windshields have compound curves that wrap around — Christian Science Monitor > < a vine wraps round the pillar > b. < coats that wrap around — advt > 2. < wrap up warm, and we'll go — W.F.De Morgan > 3. < the hydrogen bomb wraps up into a fairly small package — R.H.Rovere > II. archaic variant of rap III III. 1. a. (1) < put … into gaily drawn paper wraps — Newsweek > (2) < use of transparent film as a wrap for bundling packages — Modern Packaging > (3) < supervising the wrap of a great sheaf of tiger lilies — Christopher Morley > < produces uniformly neat, tight wraps — Fishing Gazette > b. c. d. 2. a. < at the end of each strip I would make a couple of wraps with wire to hold the bark in place — W.D.Wallace > b. c. 3. wraps plural a. < was under wraps from the higher command — G.S.Patton > < is unequivocal when she takes off the wraps — Edmund Fuller > b. < the plan was kept carefully under wraps until after the election — Don Pryor > < airplane makers took the wraps off a brand-new jet engine — New Orleans (La.) Times-Picayune > IV. < wrap a movie > intransitive verb < principal photography is due to wrap soon — Variety > V. |
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