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Wrap vs Encapsulate - What's the difference?

wrap | encapsulate |

In transitive terms the difference between wrap and encapsulate

is that wrap is to enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping while encapsulate is to epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.

As a noun wrap

is a garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.

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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    • Anagrams

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    encapsulate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (encapsulat)
  • (label) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
  • * 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, " Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):
    • At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years.
  • (label) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
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  • To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
  • (label) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

    • Derived terms

    * encapsulation