different between wrap vs coat

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)

English

Alternative forms

• cote (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kutt? (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).

Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Ancient Greek ?????? (beûdos, “woman's attire”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)

1. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^Wp

   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.^Wp
3. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.^Wp

4. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
5. (obsolete) A petticoat.

   • a child in coats

6. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn

     Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint

     She was sought by spirits of richest coat.

7. A coat of arms.^Wp
8. A coat card.
   • 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law

     Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: koto

Translations

Verb

coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)

1. (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.
2. (transitive) To cover like a coat.
3. (transitive, archaic) To clothe.

Translations

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco