Wrap
To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.
To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
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Wrap Quotations
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats
I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
Ryan Gosling
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
Robert Rauschenberg
I can wrap my legs around my neck.
Janice Dickinson
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
Tyler Perry
We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've still got to wrap them up.
Tony Dungy
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Tom Hanks
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
Russell Simmons
When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.
Josh Holloway
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
George Galloway
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith
For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
Howard Dean
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.
John Grisham
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
Erykah Badu
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
Isabel Yosito
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Muhammad Iqbal
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
Sherilyn Fenn
My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
Ron Reagan
I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
Earl Campbell
I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.
Jason Biggs
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
George Takei
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
Kate Clinton
It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
Eddie Campbell
Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.
Josh Lucas
It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
Gary Carter
It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around.
Lizzy Caplan
I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.
Craig Washington
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
Ralph Bunche
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Wrap Translations
wrap in French is langer, envelopper
wrap in Spanish is envoltura, empaquetar, envolver
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