wrapping
/ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/
wrapping noun: the material in which something is wrapped. Also the present participle and gerund of wrap.
Noun
wrapping (plural wrappings)
- The material in which something is wrapped.
- Cattle are shot with stones and can only be cured by a "fairy dart" or ancient stone arrowhead. These objects are kept in numerous wrappings by every properly qualified "fairy doctor," who rub[s] them on the sick beasts with appropriate charms ...1918, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications
- The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area.
- See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wraparound
- Synonyms:
- line breaking, line wrapping, text wrapping, word wrapping
Also used as
wrapping is also the present participle and gerund of wrap.
wrapping meaning in Hindi and Kannada
wrapping in Hindi
- रैपिंग
wrapping in Kannada
- ಸುತ್ತುವಿಕೆ
Examples of wrapping in a sentence
- A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.
- The vine begirdled the tree, wrapping around its trunk as though trying to hug it.
- Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.
Synonyms of wrapping
- casing
- packaging
- swathe
- line breaking
- line wrapping
- text wrapping
- word wrapping
Forms of wrapping
| plural | wrappings |
|---|
Origin of wrapping
From Middle English wrappinge, wrappynge, equivalent to wrap + -ing.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from wrapping
Phrases with wrapping
Words that rhyme with wrapping
- lapping
- flapping
- strapping
- tapping
- napping
- rapping
- slapping
- trapping
- chapping
- clapping
- fapping
- frapping
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Questions about wrapping
- What does wrapping mean?
- Wrapping means the material in which something is wrapped.
- What is wrapping in Hindi?
- Wrapping in Hindi is रैपिंग. See Wrapping meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wrapping?
- Wrapping is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wrapping?
- Wrapping is pronounced /ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of wrapping?
- The plural of wrapping is wrappings.
Words near wrapping in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrapping (page history and authors); wrapping (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wrapping (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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