different between wrap vs obscure
wrap
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)
- (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- (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.
- (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- a. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
- wise poets that wrap truth in tales
- a. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
- (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)
- (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.
- (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- (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)
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- A wraparound mortgage.
Derived terms
- fish wrap
- giftwrap
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
wrap (plural wraps)
- (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”)
References
Anagrams
- warp
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ræp/, [?ræp]
- IPA(key): /??ræp/, [??ræp]
Noun
wrap
- 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)
- wrap (sandwich)
Spanish
Etymology
From English wrap.
Noun
wrap m (plural wraps)
- wrap (sandwich)
wrap From the web:
- what wraps are keto friendly
- what wraps around histones
- what wrapping pattern is shown in the illustration
- what wraps does subway have
- what wraps does chick fil a have
- what wraps are gluten free
- what wraps does arby's have
- what wrappers to use for lumpia
obscure
English
Etymology
From Middle English obscure, from Old French obscur, from Latin obsc?rus (“dark, dusky, indistinct”), from ob- +? *sc?rus, from Proto-Italic *skoiros, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?eh?-.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?skj??(?)/, /?b?skj??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?skj??/, /?b?skj?/
- Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?), -??(?)
- Hyphenation: ob?scure
Adjective
obscure (comparative obscurer or more obscure, superlative obscurest or most obscure)
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- 1892, Denton Jaques Snider, Inferno, 1, 1-2 (originally by Dante Alighieri)
- I found myself in an obscure wood.
- His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- 1892, Denton Jaques Snider, Inferno, 1, 1-2 (originally by Dante Alighieri)
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- 1606, John Davies of Hereford, Bien Venu
- the obscure corners of the earth
- 1606, John Davies of Hereford, Bien Venu
- Difficult to understand.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
- The etymological roots of the word "blizzard" are obscure and open to debate.
Usage notes
- The comparative obscurer and superlative obscurest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscure and most obscure.
Synonyms
- (dark): cimmerian, dingy; See also Thesaurus:dark
- (faint or indistinct): fuzzy, ill-defined; See also Thesaurus:indistinct
- (hidden, out of sight): occluded, secluded; See also Thesaurus:hidden
- (difficult to understand): fathomless, inscrutable; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- (not well-known): enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious; See also Thesaurus:arcane
Antonyms
- clear
Derived terms
- obscurable
- unobscurable
- obscureness
Related terms
- obscurity
- obscuration
Translations
Verb
obscure (third-person singular simple present obscures, present participle obscuring, simple past and past participle obscured)
- (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
- c. 1688', William Wake, Preparation for Death
- There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured in the writings of learned men as this.
- c. 1688', William Wake, Preparation for Death
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
- 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, page 62
- I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
- 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, page 62
- (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.
- How! There's bad news. / I must obscure, and hear it.
Synonyms
- (to render obscure; to darken; dim): becloud, bedarken, bedim, bemist
Translations
Further reading
- obscure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- obscure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Cuberos
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p.sky?/
Adjective
obscure
- feminine singular of obscur
Anagrams
- courbes
Latin
Adjective
obsc?re
- vocative masculine singular of obsc?rus
References
- obscure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obscure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obscure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
obscure From the web:
- what obscure holiday is today
- what obscure means
- what obscure national holiday is it today
- what obscures the real reason for christmas
- what obscured
- what obscures the moon
- what obscure animal are you
- what obscure aesthetic are you
you may also like
- wrap vs obscure
- rival vs fighter
- enable vs admit
- anterior vs precedent
- irrational vs harebrained
- listless vs slack
- animus vs revengefulness
- number vs conclave
- direction vs chance
- unuttered vs unpronounced
- identify vs connect
- sacrosanct vs protected
- guarded vs mute
- crevasse vs notch
- mystification vs complication
- allotment vs offering
- temper vs still
- scrape vs event
- peculiar vs wayward
- knowing vs shrewd