shrink-wrap

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.”

3. fiil To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).

   “We spent all day shrink-wrapping boxes and now my feet hurt.”

4. fiil 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.”