Pancake vs. Wrap — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pancake and Wrap
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Pancake
A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack, not to be confused with oat bar flapjacks) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan, often frying with oil or butter. Archaeological evidence suggests that pancakes were probably the earliest and most widespread cereal food eaten in prehistoric societies.The pancake's shape and structure varies worldwide.
Wrap
Cover or enclose in paper or soft material
Leonora wrapped herself in a large white bath towel
He wrapped up the Christmas presents
Pancake
A thin, flat cake of batter, fried on both sides in a pan and typically rolled up with a sweet or savoury filling
Crispy pancakes filled with cheese
Pancake batter
Wrap
Cause (a word or unit of text) to be carried over to a new line automatically as the margin is reached, or to fit around embedded features such as pictures
Words are wrapped to the next line if they are too long
The program can automatically wrap text around irregularly shaped graphics
Pancake
Make-up consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, used especially in the theatre.
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Wrap
Finish filming or recording
We wrapped on schedule three days later
Pancake
(with reference to an aircraft) make or cause to make a pancake landing
The plane landed, pancaking down on the runway
Wrap
A loose outer garment or piece of material
Beach wraps
Pancake
Flatten or become flattened
Hurley's car was pancaked
Wrap
The end of a session of filming or recording
Right, it's a wrap
Pancake
A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.
Wrap
A tortilla wrapped around a cold filling, eaten as a sandwich.
Pancake
To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
Wrap
To arrange or fold (something) about as cover or protection
She wrapped her fur coat closely about herself.
Pancake
To make a pancake landing.
Wrap
To cover, envelop, or encase, as by folding or coiling something about
Wrapped my head in a scarf.
Pancake
To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.
Wrap
To enclose, especially in paper, and fasten
Wrap a package.
Wrapped up the peelings.
Pancake
A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
Wrap
To clasp, fold, or coil about something
She wrapped her arms about his neck.
Pancake
In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
Wrap
To move (text that will not fit on a line) automatically to the following line.
Pancake
In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
Wrap
To envelop and obscure
Fog wrapped the city.
Pancake
(theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
Wrap
To surround or involve in a specified quality or atmosphere
The plan was wrapped in secrecy.
Pancake
(juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
Wrap
To engross
She was wrapped in thought.
Pancake
Anything very thin and flat.
Pancake lens
Wrap
To coil or twist about or around something
The flag wrapped around the pole.
Pancake
Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
Wrap
To be moved automatically to the following line upon reaching a margin. Used of text.
Pancake
A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
Wrap
To put on warm clothing. Usually used with up.
Pancake
(volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
Wrap
To conclude filming
The movie is scheduled to wrap next week.
Pancake
(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
Wrap
A garment to be wrapped or folded about a person, especially an outer garment such as a robe, cloak, shawl, or coat.
Pancake
To collapse one floor after another.
Wrap
A blanket.
Pancake
(transitive) To flatten violently.
Wrap
A wrapping or wrapper.
Pancake
A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
Wrap
A flatbread, such as a tortilla or lavash, rolled around a filling. Also called roll-up.
Pancake
A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
Wrap
The completion of filming on a movie.
Wrap
(transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.
Wrap
(transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
A snake wraps itself around its prey.
Wrap
(figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
Wrap
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)
Wrap
(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.
Wrap
To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
Wrap
(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.
Wrap
Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
Wrap
A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
Wrap
An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
Wrap
A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
Wrap
(entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
Wrap
A wraparound mortgage.
Wrap
A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
Wrap
To snatch up; transport; - chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves.
Wrap
To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Wrap
To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; - often with up.
I . . . wrapt in mistOf midnight vapor, glide obscure.
Wrap
To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
Wise poets that wrap truth in tales.
Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.
Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity.
Wrap
A wrapper; - often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
Wrap
Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
Wrap
A sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
Wrap
The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
Wrap
Arrange or fold as a cover or protection;
Wrap the baby before taking her out
Wrap the present
Wrap
Wrap or coil around;
Roll your hair around your finger
Twine the thread around the spool
Wrap
Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering;
Fog enveloped the house
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