Wrap vs. Paint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wrap and Paint
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Wrap
Cover or enclose in paper or soft material
Leonora wrapped herself in a large white bath towel
He wrapped up the Christmas presents
Paint
Paint is any pigmented liquid, liquefiable, or solid mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects.
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
Paint
A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating.
Wrap
Finish filming or recording
We wrapped on schedule three days later
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Paint
The thin dry film formed by such a mixture when applied to a surface.
Wrap
A loose outer garment or piece of material
Beach wraps
Paint
The solid pigment before it is mixed with a vehicle.
Wrap
The end of a session of filming or recording
Right, it's a wrap
Paint
A cosmetic, such as rouge, that is used to give color to the face; makeup.
Wrap
A tortilla wrapped around a cold filling, eaten as a sandwich.
Paint
(Basketball) The free throw lane.
Wrap
To arrange or fold (something) about as cover or protection
She wrapped her fur coat closely about herself.
Paint
A Paint horse.
Wrap
To cover, envelop, or encase, as by folding or coiling something about
Wrapped my head in a scarf.
Paint
(Slang) The face cards in a deck of cards
I haven't seen any paint for the last ten hands.
Wrap
To enclose, especially in paper, and fasten
Wrap a package.
Wrapped up the peelings.
Paint
To make (a picture) with paints.
Wrap
To clasp, fold, or coil about something
She wrapped her arms about his neck.
Paint
To represent in a picture with paints.
Wrap
To move (text that will not fit on a line) automatically to the following line.
Paint
To depict vividly in words.
Wrap
To envelop and obscure
Fog wrapped the city.
Paint
To coat or decorate with paint
Paint a house.
Wrap
To surround or involve in a specified quality or atmosphere
The plan was wrapped in secrecy.
Paint
To apply cosmetics to.
Wrap
To engross
She was wrapped in thought.
Paint
To apply medicine to; swab
Paint a wound.
Wrap
To coil or twist about or around something
The flag wrapped around the pole.
Paint
To shine a laser beam on, especially in order to designate a target for laser-guided munitions.
Wrap
To be moved automatically to the following line upon reaching a margin. Used of text.
Paint
To practice the art of painting pictures.
Wrap
To put on warm clothing. Usually used with up.
Paint
To cover something with paint.
Wrap
To conclude filming
The movie is scheduled to wrap next week.
Paint
To apply cosmetics to oneself
"Let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come" (Shakespeare).
Wrap
A garment to be wrapped or folded about a person, especially an outer garment such as a robe, cloak, shawl, or coat.
Paint
To serve as a surface to be coated with paint
These nonporous surfaces paint badly with a brush.
Wrap
A blanket.
Paint
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
Wrap
A wrapping or wrapper.
Paint
(in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
Wrap
A flatbread, such as a tortilla or lavash, rolled around a filling. Also called roll-up.
Paint
The free-throw lane, construed with the.
The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
Wrap
The completion of filming on a movie.
Paint
Paintballs.
I am running low on paint for my marker.
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.
Paint
A face card (king, queen, or jack).
Wrap
(transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
A snake wraps itself around its prey.
Paint
Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
Wrap
(figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
Paint
(uncountable) Makeup.
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)
Paint
Tattoo work.
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.
Paint
(dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
Wrap
To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
Paint
The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
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.
Paint
(transitive) To apply paint to.
Wrap
Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
Paint
(transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
Wrap
A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
Paint
To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
Wrap
An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
Paint
(transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
Wrap
A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
Paint
(transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
To paint a portrait or a landscape
Wrap
(entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
Paint
(intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
I've been painting since I was a young child.
Wrap
A wraparound mortgage.
Paint
To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
Wrap
A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
Paint
To depict or portray.
She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
Wrap
To snatch up; transport; - chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves.
Paint
(intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
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.
Paint
To direct a radar beam toward.
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.
Paint
To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
Jezebel painted her face and tired her head.
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.
Paint
To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
Cuckoo buds of yellow hueDo paint the meadows with delight.
Wrap
A wrapper; - often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
Paint
To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
Wrap
Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
Paint
To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor.
Disloyal?The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
Wrap
A sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
Paint
To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
Wrap
The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
Paint
To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
Let her paint an inch thick.
Wrap
Arrange or fold as a cover or protection;
Wrap the baby before taking her out
Wrap the present
Paint
A pigment or coloring substance.
Wrap
Wrap or coil around;
Roll your hair around your finger
Twine the thread around the spool
Paint
A cosmetic; rouge.
Wrap
Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering;
Fog enveloped the house
Paint
A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
Paint
(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court;
He hit a jump shot from the top of the key
He dominates play in the paint
Paint
Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
Paint
Make a painting;
He painted all day in the garden
He painted a painting of the garden
Paint
Apply paint to; coat with paint;
We painted the rooms yellow
Paint
Make a painting of;
He painted his mistress many times
Paint
Apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil
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