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cling film

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  • noun UK A plastic film (originally polyvinylidene chloride but now polyethylene) that is so thin that is clings to any object about which it is wrapped; used to cover and preserve foodstuffs etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Saran Wrap
  2. plastic wrap

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  1. plastic wrap

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  1. Saran Wrap

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  • MaryW commented on the word cling film

    A dish of lasagna, neatly cling filmed, was sitting in the fridge, waiting to be heated up later . . . .
    Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 66.

    May 30, 2016