Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To wrap, enclose, or cover.
- transitive verb To surround.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover, as by wrapping or folding; inwrap; invest with or as with a covering; surround entirely; cover on all sides.
- To form a covering about; lie around and conceal.
- To line; cover on the inside.
- Synonyms To encircle, encompass, infold, wrap up.
- noun A wrapper; an inclosing cover; an integument: as, the envelop of a seed. Specifically
- noun A prepared wrapper for a letter or other paper, so made that it can be sealed.
- noun In fortification, a work of earth in form of a parapet, or of a small rampart with a parapet, raised to cover some weak part of the works.
- noun In astronomy, a shell partly surrounding the nucleus of a comet on the side next the sun and away from the tail, and appearing like a semicircular arch.
- noun In geometry, a curve or surface touching a continuous series of curves or surfaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
surround orenclose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall reinforce the right motives; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way; make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge, if the case allows; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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Now, that, "she added, holding out a blue envelop," is an advertisement for cold cream which no lady should be without; and that "– holding out a yellow envelop –" is an advertisement for beef extract which no brainworker should be without; and that "– holding out a white envelop –" is the worst of all, because it looks like a legitimate letter, and it 's nothing but a 'Dear
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Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall re-enforce the right motives; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way; make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge, if the case allows; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know.
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"I have here a note," Mr. Bronson said after another pause, in which he picked up an envelop from the table and drew forth a written sheet.
Chapter VII 1902
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_ Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall reinforce the right motives; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way; make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge, if the case allows; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know. "
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Not much in the way of details and the picture seems to show a unit with a front panel printed on paper and folded round the box, but the Jomox M-Resonator looks interesting - some kind of envelop-following dual filter that uses technology from the cricket-chirrup-generating Resonator Neuronium.
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The "envelop" was probably similar to the wooden ones found by Stein in the Tarim basin; cf. Serindia, vol. IV, pl. xxi.
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The cheese shouldn't be runny, but should envelop the bread.
Switzerland's Best Fondue Christina Passariello 2011
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Not a day goes by that history does not envelop me in ways that inform the present, through the narratives of ordinary people, places and events.
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: Of Teachers and History: A Brooklyn Memoir Virginia Sanchez-Korrol 2011
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Not a day goes by that history does not envelop me in ways that inform the present, through the narratives of ordinary people, places and events.
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: Of Teachers and History: A Brooklyn Memoir Virginia Sanchez-Korrol 2011
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