Envelope

Quick meaning: Envelope is a noun meaning A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.

Meaning

A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.

More Meanings

1. Something that envelops; a wrapping.
2. A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
3. (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
4. (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
5. (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
6. (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
7. (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.

Example Sentences

push the envelope

make a blind all along the bottom of the ditch of the Envelope

I suspect you write letters as hens lay eggs, find that Lady Hamilton finds them, envelopes them, puts them before you as official letters, and you direct them as per memorandum affixed.

Arthur Armytage drew the precious document from his bureau; and without trusting himself to a re-perusal, enveloped and re-enveloped—sealed and resealed it;—mounted his horse, and rode off to Greta Castle.

Word Forms

• envelopes
• enveloping
• enveloped

Synonyms for envelope

Depending on context, synonyms include wrapper, gasbag, header.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gasbag, dossier, staffing, component, ram, letter.

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