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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bænd?d?/

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
   • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]

     […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
3. (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.

Derived terms

Related terms

• dressing
• plaster
• splint

Translations

Verb

bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)

1. To apply a bandage to something.
   • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [3]

     ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

Translations

Anagrams

• Adangbe, Dagbane

Danish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banda?sj?/, [b?an?d?æ???]

Noun

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

1. bandage (medical binding)

Usage notes

This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.

Inflection

Derived terms

• gipsbandage

Further reading

• “bandage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?n?da???/
• Hyphenation: ban?da?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

bandage f (plural bandages)

1. bandage

   Synonym: zwachtel

Derived terms

• bandagist

French

Etymology

bande +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.da?/

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Descendants

• ? Danish: bandage
• ? Dutch: bandage
• ? English: bandage
• ? German: Bandage
• ? Polish: banda?
• ? Swedish: bandage

Further reading

• “bandage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Noun

bandage n

1. a bandage

Declension

Anagrams

• bangade

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: r?p, IPA^(key): /?æp/
  • Rhymes: -æp
  • Homophone: rap
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /??p/

Etymology 1

From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb- (“to turn, twist, bend”). Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop, develop.

Alternative forms

• wrop (dialectal)

Verb

wrap (third-person singular simple present wraps, present participle wrapping, simple past and past participle wrapped or (archaic) wrapt)

1. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
2. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.

   A snake wraps itself around its prey.

   • 1811, William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis

     Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

3. (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
   • a. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened

     wise poets that wrap truth in tales

4. (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. (compare wrap up 2)

5. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line

   I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.

6. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
7. (transitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.

   The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:wrap.

Synonyms

• (enclose in fabric, paper, etc): enfold, lap

Antonyms

• unwrap

Derived terms

Related terms

• wrap around
• wrap around one's little finger
• wrap up

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wrappe, from the verb (see above).

Noun

wrap (plural wraps)

1. Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
2. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
3. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
4. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
5. A wraparound mortgage.

Derived terms

• fish wrap
• giftwrap

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

wrap (plural wraps)

1. (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”)

References

Anagrams

• warp

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ræp/, [?ræp]
• IPA^(key): /??ræp/, [??ræp]

Noun

wrap

1. wrap (food)

Declension

Synonyms

• rulla
• wrappi

French

Etymology

From English wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap/, /v?ap/
• Homophones: rap, râpe

Noun

wrap m (plural wraps)

1. wrap (sandwich)

Spanish

Etymology

From English wrap.

Noun

wrap m (plural wraps)

1. wrap (sandwich)