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WRAPPER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loose dressing gown for women

Synonyms:

housecoat; neglige; negligee; peignoir; wrapper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

woman's clothing (clothing that is designed for women to wear)

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

brunch coat (a woman's short housecoat or wrapper)

camisole (a short negligee)

Derivation:

wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

Synonyms:

wrap; wrapper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

cloak (a loose outer garment)

Derivation:

wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

wrap; wrapper; wrapping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wrapper" 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 "wrapper"):

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)

Derivation:

wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The powders were neatly enough made up, but not with the nicety of the dispensing chemist; so that it was plain they were of Jekyll’s private manufacture; and when I opened one of the wrappers I found what seemed to me a simple crystalline salt of a white colour.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Issue associated with the accuracy and appropriateness of any written, printed, graphic or audio/visual matter that is supplied with a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufacturer.

(Instruction for Medical Device Use Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

After she left him he sat drearily, with drooping shoulders, on the edge of the bed, gazing about him with lack-lustre eyes that saw nothing until the torn wrapper of a magazine, which had come in the morning's mail and which lay unopened, shot a gleam of light into his darkened brain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Issue associated with inaccuracies in any written, printed, or graphic matter that is affixed to a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including verbal instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufacturers.

(Incorrect Instruction for Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)

I only observed that my mother was as far off from me as she could be, and kept her face another way so that I never saw it; and that Mr. Murdstone's hand was bound up in a large linen wrapper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then John took steadily to business, feeling the cares of the head of a family upon his shoulders, and Meg laid by her cambric wrappers, put on a big apron, and fell to work, as before said, with more energy than discretion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Two or three times in the course of the night, attired in a long flannel wrapper in which she looked seven feet high, she appeared, like a disturbed ghost, in my room, and came to the side of the sofa on which I lay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To begin with, Mr. March wrote that he should soon be with them, then Beth felt uncommonly well that morning, and, being dressed in her mother's gift, a soft crimson merino wrapper, was borne in high triumph to the window to behold the offering of Jo and Laurie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)