Wrapper vs Bag - What's the difference?
wrapper | bag |
Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.
An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown.
*1839 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘William Wilson’:
*:‘Please to examine, at your leisure, the inner linings of the cuff of his left sleeve, and the several little packages which may be found in the somewhat capacious pockets of his embroidered morning wrapper .’
One who, or that which, wraps.
(computing) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.
A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(label) First, second, or third base.
(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
To swell with arrogance.
To become pregnant.
As nouns the difference between wrapper and bag
is that wrapper is something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping while bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.As a verb bag is
to put into a bag.wrapper
English
Noun
(en noun)- He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.
- We need a Perl wrapper for this C++ library.
Synonyms
* (construct that mediates access) * wrapper classUsage notes
* In the computing sense, is often used attributively: one can speak of a “wrapper class”, a “wrapper object”, a “wrapper function”, and so on. More broadly, one can speak of the “wrapper pattern”, which is a general term for the creation and use of such wrappers.bag
English
(wikipedia bag)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multisetHyponyms
* (flexible container) bindleVerb
(bagg)- (Chaucer)