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WRAPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giving or marked by complete attention to
Example:
wrapped in thought
Synonyms:
absorbed; captive; engrossed; enwrapped; intent; wrapped
Classified under:
Similar:
attentive ((often followed by 'to') giving care or attention)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak
Example:
cloud-wrapped peaks
Synonyms:
cloaked; clothed; draped; mantled; wrapped
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Enclosed securely in a covering of paper or the like
Example:
gaily wrapped gifts
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
unwrapped (not yet wrapped or having the wrapping removed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wrap
Context examples:
They have no solid surface but rather mantles of hydrogen and helium surrounding a water-rich interior, itself perhaps wrapped around a rocky core.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
During the budding process, newly formed virus particles become "enveloped" or wrapped in an outer coat that is made from a small piece of the cell's plasma membrane.
(Enveloped virus, NCI Dictionary)
When wrapped in an immutable Object, it is called a Double.
(Double, NCI Thesaurus)
Repeating nucleosome units contain two molecules each of core Histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 that form an octamer complex around which approximately 146 base pairs of DNA is wrapped.
(Histone H1, NCI Thesaurus)
Repeating nucleosome units contain two molecules each of Histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 that form an octamer complex around which approximately 146 base pairs of DNA is wrapped.
(Histone H2B, NCI Thesaurus)
As soon as he showed signs of life we wrapped him up in blankets and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen stove.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The affected area is then wrapped in a special bandage.
(Complex decongestive therapy, NCI Dictionary)
Unlike a cigarette, a cigarillo is wrapped in whole-leaf tobacco.
(Cigarillo, NCI Thesaurus)
In the cases of this study, the plastic that showed up in people is associated with eating plastic wrapped foods, and drinking from plastic bottles.
(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)
The cell nucleus is a ball of chromosomes wrapped in a protective fatty membrane.
(Scientists uncover nuclear process in the brain that may affect disease, NIH)
