shrink-wrap
nounEtymology
From shrink + wrap.
Definitions
A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so…
A plastic film that is used to protect an item and which during application contracts so it tightly enclose it.
- Please order another five rolls of shrink-wrap from the supply house.
The wrapping around an item that has been shrink-wrapped.
- Please don't damage the shrink-wrap when you are boxing up the items for shipment.
To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
- We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.
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To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal…
To reconstruct an extinct creature known from its fossils by depicting it with minimal soft tissue, yielding a thinner and less accurate representation of the creature.
- Such shrink-wrapped models gave generations of schoolchildren mental images of dinosaurs that are probably much uglier and scrawnier than the creatures were in reality.
The neighborhood
- neighborheat shrink
- neighborshrinkage
- neighborshrink rate
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for shrink-wrap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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