Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cover, hang, or decorate with cloth in loose folds.
- intransitive verb To arrange or let fall in loose folds.
- intransitive verb To hang or rest limply.
- intransitive verb To fall or hang in loose folds.
- noun A drapery; a curtain.
- noun A paper or cloth covering placed over a patient's body during medical examination or treatment, designed to provide privacy or a sterile operative field.
- noun The way in which cloth falls or hangs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with or as with cloth; clothe; dress, as a window, an alcove, the outside of a house, etc., the human body, or a representation of the human body, as in sculpture or painting: as, the buildings were draped with flags; the painter's figures are well draped.
- To arrange or adjust, as clothing, hangings, etc.
- To make into cloth.
- To make cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To make cloth.
- intransitive verb To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
- transitive verb To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery
- transitive verb obsolete To rail at; to banter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A curtain, a drapery.
- noun US See
drapes . - noun US A youth subculture distinguished by its
sharp dress, especiallypeg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym:square - verb To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with
drapery ; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. - verb To
rail at; tobanter . - verb To make
cloth . - verb To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
- verb To
hang or restlimply - verb To spread over,
cover .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the manner in which fabric hangs or falls
- noun a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
- verb cover or dress loosely with cloth
- verb arrange in a particular way
- noun hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- verb place casually
- verb cover as if with clothing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The funny looking fishing cap with the big bill and neck drape is less likely to blow off if the wind picks up.
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The funny looking fishing cap with the big bill and neck drape is less likely to blow off if the wind picks up.
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The one with the drape is the one that immediately caught my eye.
And now for something completely different - A Dress A Day 2007
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The drape was a near perfect match in color for the sign on the front of the podium that said "office of the president elect."
Blog updates 2008
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We understand what "drape" means when it comes to closing the ones on the windows to keep out the sun and protect our furniture, but for some reason, people find it difficult to understand why they should drape themselves and their daughters in enough cloth to protect their privacy on their bodies.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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We understand what "drape" means when it comes to closing the ones on the windows to keep out the sun and protect our furniture, but for some reason, people find it difficult to understand why they should drape themselves and their daughters in enough cloth to protect their privacy on their bodies.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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That's really useful and interesting; I think I'll do some experimenting also with the width of the ruffles affecting "drape", which also hadn't occurred to me, LaBD, but makes sense.
Petticoats and Crinolines and Slips, Oh My! - A Dress A Day 2008
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Bush also said that the democrats are measuring windows and picking out "drape" colors.
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ACA has all the vanilla acad tools, plus additionals for modelling walls, doors, windows, curtain walls, structural members, roofs, slabs etc. It also has the 'drape' command whereby you can use points or conrours to generate a terrain model.
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Both, a fabric "drape" on the outside and a plastic liner inside, I thought everyone did it this way. parttimedesign on July 22nd 2010 at 1: 37pm view parttimedesign's
hernesheir commented on the word drape
A cow, whose milk is dried up. A farrow cow. - Old provincial term from the north of England.
May 2, 2011