Envelope
['envələʊp;'ɒn-]
Definition
(noun.) any wrapper or covering.
(noun.) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc..
(noun.) the bag containing the gas in a balloon.
(noun.) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft); 'test pilots try to push the envelope'.
(noun.) a natural covering (as by a fluid); 'the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet'.
(noun.) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Envelop
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] [1]. Wrapper, covering, case, capsule.[2]. (Fort.) Mound (to cover a weak part).[3]. (Astron.) Coma.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENVENOM]
Typist: Marvin
Unserious Contents or Definition
Envelopes seen in a dream, omens news of a sorrowful cast.
Editor: Margaret
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
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Examples
- Then suppose you try, ma'am,' said Bounderby, laying an envelope with a cheque in it in her little basket. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The paper, cut into the desired form by a separate machine, was piled up on one side of the envelope folder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- She darted across to a writing-desk, unlocked it, and drew out a long blue envelope. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her mistress smiled and took the yellow envelope. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- As I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the envelope. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- How strange it seemed that to a full-grown white man an envelope was a mystery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The completed envelope was then thrown out into a basket, or it slided out of the machine on to those before made. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He came back with a sealed envelope. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go and inquire as to the address. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As he wrote a word on his card and waited for an envelope he glanced about the embowered shop, and his eye lit on a cluster of yellow roses. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The coat of arms was on the envelope, and it was addressed in the Duke's peculiar stiff hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mark after mark I made on the back of the old envelope--so many that I had lost track of the number; it seemed an age since the machine started, and it appeared to be fixed in the sky. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The Frenchman had been watching him, and knew that Tarzan was puzzled over the envelope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The Synoptical Tabulation for the use of Mrs. Casaubon, she carefully enclosed and sealed, writing within the envelope, I could not use it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The first addressographs were intended for printing names and addresses consecutively on envelopes and post cards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We must not conclude this notice of Paper Making Machinery without alluding to the ingenious self-acting mechanisms for making envelopes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The third doctor, who carried the X-ray plates in their red envelopes, said nothing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They were in red envelopes and she took them out of the envelopes and held them up to the light and we both looked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When I had done, and had sealed and directed the two envelopes, I went back with the letters to Laura's room, to show her that they were written. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- CAPACITY, 7,500 ADDRESSED ENVELOPES PER HOUR] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The threads in postage envelopes and in bankers' cheques, are introduced by this process of plating two surfaces together. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This machine automatically feeds and addresses public service bills, insurance premium notices and receipts, cards, envelopes, circulars, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One of the inner sheets of paper--the second one, usually--is double, and, when folded, forms two envelopes that are back to back. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The papers had been made up into sealed envelopes, one or two of which had been opened by the police. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed-- Oh ciel! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- SPEED, 5,000 ADDRESSED ENVELOPES AN HOUR] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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