WRAPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrapping mean? 

• WRAPPING (noun)
  The noun WRAPPING has 2 senses:

1. the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

2. an enveloping bandage

  Familiarity information: WRAPPING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRAPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wrap; wrapper; wrapping

Hypernyms ("wrapping" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrapping"):

envelope (any wrapper or covering)

film; plastic film (a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things)

gift wrapping (ornamental wrapping for gifts)

jacket (an outer wrapping or casing)

plastic wrap (wrapping consisting of a very thin transparent sheet of plastic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enveloping bandage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

swathe; wrapping

Hypernyms ("wrapping" is a kind of...):

bandage; patch (a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body)

Derivation:

wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)

 Context examples 

Half of his last blanket had gone into foot-wrappings.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A virus that has an outer wrapping or envelope.

(Enveloped virus, NCI Dictionary)

Issue associated with difficulty for end-users to operate device, specifically as it relates to the opening or removal of the outer wrapping.

(Difficult to Open or Remove Medical Device Packaging Material, Food and Drug Administration)

Infrared measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope showed that the system's star is surrounded by a thin disk of planetary debris, indicating that its planet-formation phase is wrapping up.

(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)

As a whole, the BBB can be viewed as a smart protective wrapping that separates the blood from the brain.

(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)

I had no sensation whatever in my lower limbs, while a chilling numbness was wrapping about my heart and creeping into it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient engage in repetitive activities such as handling buttons, picking, wrapping string, etc.?

(NPI - Engage in Repetitive Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

All were covered up in thin wrapping paper to keep them from the dust.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Wrapping the limb in a heated blanket or warming the drugs or blood may help the drugs work better.

(Isolated Chemotherapeutic Limb Perfusion, NCI Dictionary)

Issue associated with problems removing the materials used to construct the cover or outer wrapping of the device.

(Failure to Unwrap Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)