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名詞

shrinkwrap (countable and uncountable, plural shrinkwraps)

1. Alternative form of shrink-wrap

等位語

• stretch-wrap

派生語

• shrinkwrap license

動詞

shrinkwrap (third-person singular simple present shrinkwraps, present participle shrinkwrapping, simple past and past participle shrinkwrapped)

1. Alternative form of shrink-wrap

派生語

• shrinkwrap license

関連する語

動詞

shrink-wrap (third-person singular simple present shrink-wraps, present participle shrink-wrapping, simple past and past participle shrink-wrapped)

1. To apply shrink-wrap to (an item).

   Coordinate terms: bubble-wrap, saran-wrap

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

2. (paleontology, 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.