What's the difference between gown and wrapper?

Gown


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose, flowing upper garment
  • (n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
  • (n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
  • (n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  • (n.) Any sort of dress or garb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
  • (2) This training program served to further emphasize the importance of using proper aseptic gowning technique.
  • (3) Experimental subjects desired fewer changes in exam procedures than control subjects, indicating that the gown provided them with an overall more comfortable experience.
  • (4) There were 102 infants in the gowning group and 100 infants in the nongowning group.
  • (5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
  • (6) Of 110 blood contacts among surgeons, 81 (74%) were potentially preventable by additional barrier precautions, such as face shields and fluid-resistant gowns.
  • (7) The first lady resented the governor’s prohibition on using his donor lists to market her nutritional supplements, he testified, and she reacted with anger when an adviser told her that she should not accept Williams’ offer to buy her an Oscar de la Renta gown to wear to the governor’s inauguration.
  • (8) Others were recycled: a panel of embroidery that probably came from a magnificent set of bed curtains was chopped up and stitched on to a priest’s chasuble, made from carefully pieced-together fragments of a woman’s gown of magnificent Italian patterned silk.
  • (9) We are in our prime, still strong, living full and interesting lives, not stuck at home festering in a candlewick dressing gown (OK, sometimes, but only when it’s cold and dark outside).
  • (10) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
  • (11) He was a loving and caring young man according to his grandmother,” Johnson said in a Facebook post that showed Robinson smiling in a bright red graduation cap and gown.
  • (12) Isolation gowns have traditionally been used in health care situations to protect against microbial contamination.
  • (13) I got a Chewbacca, a Leia-in-the-white-gown and an orange-suited Luke Skywalker.
  • (14) Who cares who spent what on a pasta bake and whether or not you're allowed to claim for a dressing gown?
  • (15) Two thirds of the increase (64%) was due to rubber gloves and an additional 25% was due to disposable isolation gowns.
  • (16) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (17) It is quite satisfactory for preventing operators from soiling their feet and their gowns.
  • (18) The results of the study demonstrated not only significant reduction in wound infection rates but also major cost savings when a disposable gown and drape system was used in the operating room.
  • (19) Eight NICU required routine gowning on entry, two restricted sibling visiting and four restricted visiting by relatives and friends.
  • (20) Other precautions included the use of Charnley gowns with a body exhaust system, special draping of the patient, and preoperative culture of the urine.

Wrapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, wraps.
  • (n.) That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.
  • (n.) Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lauren Eyles, MCS Beachwatch officer, said: "Despite last summer being seen as a washout by many with heavy rain in many places, it appears those people that did visit our beaches left behind a lot of personal litter – sweet wrappers, ice cream wrappers and plastic drinks bottles failed to find their way into rubbish bins and ended up being dropped and left behind.
  • (2) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
  • (3) A foreign body consisting of a piece of a celophane candy wrapper was found by surgery.
  • (4) So there would be no more bundling up dodgy mortgages and flogging them in fancy wrappers.
  • (5) Subjects were presented with Hershey's kisses wrapped in either transparent (visible) or non-transparent (non-visible) wrappers while performing a sham test; the number of chocolates consumed was the dependent measure.
  • (6) Water bottles, sweet wrappers, sanitary towels and footprints are telltale signs, as is a bivouac made from bushes to shelter the migrants from the heat of the day so they can continue their journey at night.
  • (7) Analysis of unused wrappers showed 76-88% of the total DBP and DEHP to be present on the foil (outer) surface as a component of the protective coating (washcoat).
  • (8) Several providers, including Aldermore, Nationwide, Newcastle building society and NatWest, however, operate their Isas inside a wrapper, which means you can transfer all your money to them and distribute it between the help-to-buy Isa and their other cash Isas.
  • (9) A noble idea – offering free sports equipment to schools in return for collecting chocolate wrappers – backfired disastrously when it emerged that a child eating enough chocolate to "earn" a free basketball would have to play the game continuously for four days and nights to burn off the calories they had consumed to get it.
  • (10) In every grocery store, Kumamon smiles from every punnet of strawberries and honeydew melon wrapper.
  • (11) Vegetarian haggis gyoza dumplings You can make your own wrappers, but it's much easier to buy them frozen at Japanese or Oriental shops.
  • (12) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
  • (13) Exposed meat wrappers showed a higher prevalence of cough, phlegm, hay fever, and asthma than did the control group.
  • (14) The village is a smattering of fishing shacks frequented by stray dogs and chickens; the sand is littered with sweet wrappers, water bottles, flip-flops and polystyrene food containers; the sea is cloudy from the dredging.
  • (15) Serves 6 For the wrappers 200g plain flour ¼ tsp baking powder A good pinch of salt 100ml water 3 tbsp cornflour, for dusting For the filling 250g chicken or pork mince 1 red onion, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 5cm-piece of fresh ginger, chopped 5 green chillies, chopped 2 spring onions, chopped 5g black peppercorns, crushed 2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander 1 tsp cumin powder, roasted ½ tsp garam masala powder 75g butter 1¼ tsp salt Juice of one lemon 1 To make the momo wrappers, sift the flour and baking powder on to a work surface.
  • (16) Sitting in the shelter with her son, Luis, a half-eaten cookie in a wrapper on the table in front of him, Maldonado said that they decided to leave when a gang tried to recruit the 17-year-old.
  • (17) Or, if it’s been a stressful one, a pile of KitKat wrappers!
  • (18) There is also some quite magnificent socialising, including being part of the inner circle at the Factory, and fabled New York nightclub Studio 54 (Jones was a close confidante of Warhol, and drops celebrity names as nonchalantly as sweet wrappers).
  • (19) Connolly says older people should be wary of taking money out of cash Isas to put into the bonds, as they would lose the tax-free wrapper for the sake of a one or three-year interest rate boost.
  • (20) Dangers such as bed- and tub-sharing, diaper and cleaning pails, plastic wrappers, balloons, small beds, toys on strings, broken or poorly designed cribs, and poorly positioned adult beds must be brought to the attention of the parent as consumer.