(fishing) An optional wrap that goes under the guide wrap on a fishing rod.
(medicine) A lightweight foam that is applied to the skin to reduce irritation before wrapping with supportive tape.
(medicine) A sheath that surrounds a limb and which is used under a cast.
(sewing) The portion of a garment that is overlapped by another portion, such as the hidden part of a wrap skirt or the edge that holds buttons which is hidden when a garment is buttoned up.
An undergarment that consists of a cloth wrapped around the body.
verb
To provide with a wrapping that will subsequently be covered or wrapped by something else.
To provide with an underwrap.
To provide with insufficient wrappings.
To underlap.
To wrap such that the wrapping does not go all the way to the edge.
To wrap the underside of something.
underwrapped
underwrapped
adj
(fishing) Having an underwrap.
(molecular biology, of a protein) Insufficiently desolvated.
Having an end that protrudes underneath.
Having an inner wrapping.
Having insufficient clothes or blankets.
Secret; under wraps.
Wrapped such that the wrapping does not go all the way to the edge.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of underwrap
underwrapping
underwrapping
noun
(molecular biology) A state of being insufficiently desolvated, so that the main chain of hydrogen bonds in a protein are too accessible, rendering the protein unstable.
