WRAPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrapper mean? 

• WRAPPER (noun)
  The noun WRAPPER has 3 senses:

1. a loose dressing gown for women

2. the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

3. cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

  Familiarity information: WRAPPER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRAPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loose dressing gown for women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

housecoat; neglige; negligee; peignoir; wrapper

Hypernyms ("wrapper" is a kind of...):

woman's clothing (clothing that is designed for women to wear)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrapper"):

brunch coat (a woman's short housecoat or wrapper)

camisole (a short negligee)

Derivation:

wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wrap; wrapper; wrapping

Hypernyms ("wrapper" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrapper"):

envelope (any wrapper or covering)

film; plastic film (a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things)

gift wrapping (ornamental wrapping for gifts)

jacket (an outer wrapping or casing)

plastic wrap (wrapping consisting of a very thin transparent sheet of plastic)

Derivation:

wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wrap; wrapper

Hypernyms ("wrapper" is a kind of...):

cloak (a loose outer garment)

Derivation:

wrap (arrange or fold as a cover or protection)

 Context examples 

So much for the string, then, said Holmes, smiling, now for the box wrapper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Von Bork undid a winding of string and two wrappers of paper.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father's arms.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A tube-shaped tobacco product that is made of tightly rolled, cured tobacco leaves in a tobacco leaf wrapper or a wrapper that contains tobacco.

(Cigar, NCI Dictionary)

Finely cut tobacco encased in a wrapper of thin paper and rolled for smoking.

(Cigarette, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with users being unclear and not able to follow any written, printed, or graphic matter that is affixed to a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including verbal instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufactures that vary from the standard of medical care in a given environment.

(Confusing Instruction for Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)

She was so strange a figure, with some sort of purple wrapper on, and her big, flushed face smiling out of it, that I might, if I had been alone, have taken to my heels at the sight of her.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was previously believed that the endothelium, the thin layer of tissue that lines blood vessels, served no other purpose than to act as an inert wrapper of the vascular system, allowing both water and electrolytes to pass in and out of the bloodstream.

(Vitamin D-3 Could 'Reverse' Damage to Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"But don't pull me down or strangle me," he replied: for the Misses Eshton were clinging about him now; and the two dowagers, in vast white wrappers, were bearing down on him like ships in full sail.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When we had exhausted the subject of the stars, or rather when I had exhausted the mental faculties of Mr. Barkis, little Em'ly and I made a cloak of an old wrapper, and sat under it for the rest of the journey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)