Definition of Wrap

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Definition of Wrap

Wrap

To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.

To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.

To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.

A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.

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Wrap Quotations

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
Russell Simmons

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Tom Hanks

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
George Takei

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
Erykah Badu

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
Robert Rauschenberg

I can wrap my legs around my neck.
Janice Dickinson

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Muhammad Iqbal

Wrap Translations

wrap in French is langer, envelopper
wrap in Spanish is envoltura, empaquetar, envolver

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