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Wrap is a related term of gag.


As nouns the difference between wrap and gag

is that wrap is wrap (food) while gag is gag (a joke or other mischievous prank).

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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    gag

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head) (Group-specific antigen)
  • group specific antigens

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
  • (legal) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
  • A joke or other mischievous prank.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 20 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}
  • A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
  • (archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
    • a gag of mutton fat
    (Lamb)

    Synonyms

    * (legal) gag order * (joke) See also

    Derived terms

    * sight gag

    Verb

  • To experience the vomiting reflex.
    • He gagged when he saw the open wound.
  • To cause to heave with nausea.
  • (rfc-sense) To : to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).
  • To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
    ''The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.
  • (figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
    • When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
  • * Macaulay
    • The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged , and reason to be hoodwinked.
  • To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
  • * Fortescue (translation)
    • mouths gagged to such a wideness

    Derived terms

    * gag me with a spoon