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adjective
1.
(of a garment) made to fold around or across the body so that one side of the garment overlaps the other forming the closure.
2.
extending in a curve from the front around to the sides: a wraparound windshield.
3.
of, pertaining to, or arranged under a wraparound mortgage: wraparound financing.
4.
all-inclusive; comprehensive: a wraparound insurance plan.
noun
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a wraparound object.
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Printing. a thin metal, plastic, or rubber plate made flat and then wrapped around a cylinder for printing on a rotary press.
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British. book jacket.
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Wraparound
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Also, wrap-a·round.
Origin:
1965–70; adj., noun use of verb phrase wrap around (something)
1965–70; adj., noun use of verb phrase wrap around (something)
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| wrapround or wraparound (ˈræpˌraʊnd, ˈræpəˌraʊnd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | made so as to be wrapped round something: a wrapround skirt |
| 2. | surrounding, curving round, or overlapping |
| 3. | curving round in one continuous piece: a wrapround windscreen |
| —n | |
| 4. | printing a flexible plate of plastic, metal, or rubber that is made flat but used wrapped round the plate cylinder of a rotary press |
| 5. | printing Also called: outsert, Sometimes shortened to: wrap a separately printed sheet folded around a section for binding |
| 6. | a slip of paper folded round the dust jacket of a book to announce a price reduction, special offer, etc |
| 7. | another name for wrapover |
| wraparound or wraparound | |
| —adj | |
| —n | |
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