drape

Definition of drape in English English dictionary: To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc; A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square; A curtain, a drapery; To hang or rest limply; To spread over, cover; To rail at; to banter; To make cloth; To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc; {f} cover with cloth, adorn with drapery; hang or stretch out loosely; arrange in graceful folds; The hang or the fall of the fabric; The ability of prepreg to conform to the shape of a contoured surface; arrange in a particular way; "drape a cloth"; If you drape a part of your body somewhere, you lay it there in a relaxed and graceful way. Nicola slowly draped herself across the couch He draped his arm over Daniels' shoulder; a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination the manner in which fabric hangs or falls; "she adjusted the drape of her skirt"; A group of patterns which resemble curtain drapes Usually created by moving a wavey pattern in carefully defined variable moves to create a curved appearence which is repeated to give the drape effect See also Moiré; Drapes are pieces of heavy fabric that you hang from the top of a window and can close to keep the light out or stop people looking in; Involves laying features over a digital terrain model to provide information on features that lie on the terrain The terrain model provides the shape of the terrain Draped features may then include a satellite image of the terrain to show land use, and vector data to show features such as roads; hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window); If someone or something is draped in a piece of cloth, they are loosely covered by it. The coffin had been draped in a Union Jack He draped himself in the Canadian flag and went round the track; The ability of a prepreg to conform to the shape of a contoured surface; If you drape a piece of cloth somewhere, you place it there so that it hangs down in a casual and graceful way. Natasha took the coat and draped it over her shoulders She had a towel draped around her neck. = hang; a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination; cover or dress loosely with cloth; "drape the statue with a sheet; To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc; How clothing flows vertically, according to gravitational forces The more natural and unwrinkled the clothing looks from head to toe, the better the drape; place casually; "The cat draped herself on the sofa"; as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc; cover or dress loosely with cloth; "drape the statue with a sheet"; {i} curtain, drapery; manner in which something drapes and hangs in folds; The way a fabric hangs (on a body) This fabric drapes beautifully; To betray a body to the Hardheads "Kig had better not drape me now that I've told him all about our plan "; the manner in which fabric hangs or falls; "she adjusted the drape of her skirt"; A fabric's ability to fold, hang, and move about; A dance position in which the woman reclines over the man's knee or thigh with at least one of her skates on the ice
drapes: plural form of drape
drapes: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drape
drapey: Tending to form drape-like folds
draping: That which drapes
draping: Present participle of drape
draping: Material used as a drape
drapable: {s} may be covered with cloth; may be arranged in graceful folds (about clothing, cloth, etc.)
draped: covered in folds of cloth; "velvet-draped windows"
draped: covered in folds of cloth; "velvet-draped windows
draped: covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks"
draped: past of drape
drapes: third-person singular of drape
drapes: Heavy cloth hung over a window
drapes: long heavy curtains
draping: A technique of looping and securing fabric in graceful curves and folds
draping: Display technique where planimetric information is visually overlaid on 3-D perspective models (usually DTM) E g , the display of soil polygons or a road network on a perspective display of terrain elevation
draping: The overlaying of a spatial data set onto a 2 5D elevation surface
draping: Draping means to hang or to adorn the body form with loose fabric, and to obtain a body fitted garment by using adequate sewing techniques

Turkish - English

Definition of drape in Turkish English dictionary: (Sanat) drapery; (Tekstil) drape

drape

Turkish pronunciation

dreyp

Synonyms

array, cloak, clothe, cover, dangle, display, don, dress, droop, drop, enclose, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold

Antonyms

undrape

Pronunciation

/ˈdrāp/ /ˈdreɪp/

Etymology

[ 'drAp ] (verb.) 1847. From Middle English drape (noun, “a drape”), from Old French draper (“to drape", also, "to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably of Germanic origin, from Frankish *drap, *drāp- (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”)http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/drabcloth from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepanan (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrebh- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”), An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, "Drab.". Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), Low Saxon drapen, dräpen (“to strike”), German treffen (“to meet”), Swedish dräpa (“to slay”). More at drub.