underwrapping
underwrapping is the present participle and gerund of underwrap.
Noun
underwrapping (plural underwrappings)
- The act of underwrapping something.
- Mechanised underwrapping and the rapid, efficient, automatic cross-tying of newspaper bundles are forging the final link of complete automation in the mailing rooms not only of many of the United Kingdom's major newspaper houses but also leading publishing houses in overseas countries.1967, World's Press News and Advertisers' Review - Volume 77
- In the Power Strap Inc. booth, a demonstration of bundle underwrapping and overwrapping draws rapt attention.1991, Presstime - Volume 13, page 24
- A material that forms an underwrapped layer.
- How carefully done up — tissue-paper underwrapping as well !1901, Edmund Mitchell, Only a Nigger, page 251
- An underwrapping of thin polyester urethane foam may be applied next.1994, The Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine - Volume 11, page 57
- A state of being insufficiently desolvated, so that the main chain of hydrogen bonds in a protein are too accessible, rendering the protein unstable.
- Crystal structures from PDB were analyzed totest whether duplicability of a geneis affected by its underwrapping (Liang et al., 2008).2011 -, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology, →ISBN
- However, protein underwrapping is only one cause of dosage effects.2011, Katharina Dittmar, David Liberles, Evolution after Gene Duplication, →ISBN
Meaning of underwrap
Verb
underwrap (third-person singular simple present underwraps, present participle underwrapping, simple past and past participle underwrapped)
- To provide with an underwrap.
- To make the rod “look better,” he underwrapped all the guides and finished them off with fancy, spiral windings and 3 heavy coats of varnish.1956, Florida Wildlife - Volumes 10-11, page 78
- To provide with a wrapping that will subsequently be covered or wrapped by something else.
- Sharp or irregular shaped parts should be underwrapped with a grade A material to cushion against puncture.1945, William C Farmer, Ordnance Field Guide: Restricted - Volume 3, page 508
- To wrap the underside of something.
- In M. dekayi the under face of suspensorium is underwrapped by prootic, by the exoccipital in missuriensis.1869, Edward Drinker Cope, Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America
- To underlap.
- The rails are formed at their ends to underwrap each other, as (f f.)1833, Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine, page 85
- To wrap such that the wrapping does not go all the way to the edge.
- These flaws can include a reed being overwrapped (wrapped past the end of the staple), underwrapped (not wrapped the full length of the staple), or slipped incorrectly (the blades of cane not meeting properly especially if one blade is completely inside the other blade); the cane being crooked on...2013, Jacqueline Leclair, Oboe Secrets, →ISBN
- To provide with insufficient wrappings.
- Personally, we feel that overwrapping is more harmful than underwrapping in measles as well as in many other conditions.1935, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 70, page 386
Forms of underwrapping
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Questions about underwrapping
- What does underwrapping mean?
- Underwrapping means the act of underwrapping something.
- What is underwrapping the present participle and gerund of?
- Underwrapping is the present participle and gerund of underwrap.
- What part of speech is underwrapping?
- Underwrapping is a noun.
- What is the plural of underwrapping?
- The plural of underwrapping is underwrappings.
Words near underwrapping in the dictionary
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