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Wrap vs Drape - What's the difference?

wrap | drape |

As verbs the difference between wrap and drape

is that wrap is to enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper while drape is to cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

As nouns the difference between wrap and drape

is that wrap is a garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm while drape is a curtain, a drapery.

wrap

English

Verb

  • To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
  • To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
    • A snake wraps itself around its prey.
  • * Bryant
    • Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
  • (figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
  • * Carew
    • wise poets that wrap truth in tales
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
    • To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "wrap")

    Synonyms

    * enfold

    Antonyms

    * unwrap

    Derived terms

    * wrap around and wrap-around * wrap around one's little finger * wrappable * wrapper * wrapping * wrap up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
  • A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a pancake.
  • (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
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    drape

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A curtain, a drapery.
  • The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
  • (US) See drapes.
  • (US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square

    • References

    * Time.com: MANNERS & MORALS: The Drapes [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,856482,00.html]

    Verb

    (drap)
  • To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
  • * De Quincey
    • The whole people were draped professionally.
  • * Bungay
    • These starry blossoms, pure and white, / Soft falling, falling, through the night, / Have draped the woods and mere.
  • To .
  • To make cloth.
  • To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
  • To hang or rest ly
  • To spread over, cover.

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