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 Definitions of drape  [ɪp]  

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Definition of 'drape' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) drape
to cover, surround, or hang with cloth or other fabric, esp. in graceful folds.

2.  drape
to adjust (fabric, clothes, etc.) into graceful folds or attractive lines.

3.  drape
to arrange, hang, or let fall carelessly:
to drape a towel on a doorknob.

4. (v.i.) drape
to hang, fall, or become arranged in folds, as drapery.

5. (n.) drape
a curtain, usu. of heavy fabric and considerable length, esp. one of a pair drawn open and shut across or hung at the sides of a window.

6.  drape
manner or style of hanging:
the drape of a skirt.

Etymology:  (1400–50; late ME < MF draper, der. of drap cloth (see drab1))

Definition of 'drape' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

2. (noun) drape
the manner in which fabric hangs or falls
"she adjusted the drape of her skirt"

3. (verb) drape
a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination

4. (verb) drape
arrange in a particular way
"drape a cloth"

5. (verb) drape
place casually
"The cat draped herself on the sofa"

6. (verb) clothe, cloak, drape, robe
cover as if with clothing
"the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"

7. (verb) drape
cover or dress loosely with cloth
"drape the statue with a sheet"


Definition of 'drape' Webster Dictionary 

1. (verb) drape
to cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc

2. (verb) drape
to rail at; to banter

3. (verb) drape
to make cloth

4. (verb) drape
to design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc


Translation of 'drape' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to hang cloth in folds (about)
We draped the sofa in red velvet.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: drapeer Arabic flag Arabic: يُلَبِّس، يُغَطّي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: драпирам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: drapear Czech flag Czech: pokrýt German flag German: einhüllen
Danish flag Danish: drapere; beklæde Greek flag Greek: ντύνω, στολίζω Spanish flag Spanish: drapear
Estonian flag Estonian: drapeerima Farsi flag Farsi: پارچه آویزان کردن Finnish flag Finnish: kietoa
French flag French: draper Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְכָסוֹת Hindi flag Hindi: परदा लटकाना
Croatian flag Croatian: presvući tkaninom Hungarian flag Hungarian: áthúz Indonesian flag Indonesian: melapisi
Icelandic flag Icelandic: tjalda Italian flag Italian: coprire; drappeggiare Japanese flag Japanese: ~に布をかける
Korean flag Korean: (~에) 주름천 장식을 달다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: drapiruoti, aptiesti Latvian flag Latvian: drapēt
Malay flag Malay: melapisi Dutch flag Dutch: omhangen met Norwegian flag Norwegian: drapere
Polish flag Polish: drapować Persian flag Persian: پارچه آویزان کردن Pashto flag Pashto: كالى اوارول
Portuguese flag Portuguese: drapear Romanian flag Romanian: a drapa Russian flag Russian: задрапировывать
Slovak flag Slovak: prikryť Slovenian flag Slovenian: v gube nabrati Serbian flag Serbian: staviti draperiju
Swedish flag Swedish: drapera, klä Thai flag Thai: ห่อ (ด้วยผ้าผืนใหญ่) Turkish flag Turkish: koyup asmak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (用布)披覆 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: драпірувати Urdu flag Urdu: کپڑے وغیرہ سے آرائش کے طو
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: khoác Chinese flag Chinese: (成褶地)披覆

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