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How to pronounce wrapping in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms wrap, wrapper
Type of covering
Has types gift wrapping, jacket, plastic film, plastic wrap, envelope, film
Type Words
Synonyms swathe
Type of patch, bandage
Derivation wrap

Examples of wrapping

wrapping
Leg muscles are wrapped into separate compartments with tough wrapping material.
From the stltoday.com
Anna and her five brothers and sisters helped out with the dipping and wrapping.
From the kentucky.com
The shop delivers the flowers, with a radio chip attached to the wrapping paper.
From the businessweek.com
Place the wrapped shrimp on the rack and continue wrapping the remaining shrimp.
From the post-gazette.com
The council this week is wrapping up a series of public hearings on the program.
From the stltoday.com
Officer Jeff Casey is wrapping up the final DARE lessons in sixth-grade science.
From the desmoinesregister.com
They said the consumer is taking a risk by wrapping the cord in electrical tape.
From the sacbee.com
Do this everytime you get out of the car or have been sitting wrapping presents.
From the delawareonline.com
One year Mom got the idea of pro-actively wrapping Band-Aids around her fingers.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
  • Swathe: an enveloping bandage
  • (wrap) arrange or fold as a cover or protection; "wrap the baby before taking her out"; "Wrap the present"
  • (wrap) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
  • (wrap) wind: arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
  • (wrap) a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
  • In computer graphics, wrapping is the process of limiting a position to an area. A good example of wrapping is wallpaper, a single pattern repeated indefinitely over a wall. ...
  • In computing, wrapping is when a variable that exceeds its maximum value returns to its minimum value and vice-versa. Many high-level programming languages avoid wrapping by giving an arithmetic overflow error if this occurs.
  • (The Wrap) Sharon Waxman is an American journalist who has been a correspondent for The Washington Post and The New York Times, among others.