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shrink-wrap en · NOUN

Etymology

From shrink + wrap.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

Deriveds

shrinkwrap license

Relateds

glad wrap (wraps) · shrinkage · cling wrap (wraps) · cling film (wraps) · saran-wrap (wraps) · Saran Wrap (wraps) · heat shrink · food wrap (wraps) · Saran wrap (wraps) · shrink rate · saran wrap (wraps)

Translations (11)

sv krympplast (plastic film that is used to protect an item) · de Schrumpffolie (plastic film that is used to protect an item) · eo ŝrumpfolio (plastic film that is used to protect an item) · sv krympfilm (plastic film that is used to protect an item) · sv krympplast (wrapping around a shrink-wrapped item) · eo ŝrumpfolio (wrapping around a shrink-wrapped item) · hu fólia (plastic film that is used to protect an item) · hu zsugorfólia (plastic film that is used to protect an item) · de Schrumpffolienverpackung (wrapping around a shrink-wrapped item) · sv krympfilm (wrapping around a shrink-wrapped item) · ca retractilació (wrapping around a shrink-wrapped item)

shrink-wrap en · VERB

Etymology

From shrink + wrap.

Meanings

1. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).
   • We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.
2. (derogatory) 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.

Forms

Coordinates

saran-wrap · bubble-wrap