envelope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁én
From French enveloppe. The engineering sense is derived from flight envelope. The verb is from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: envelopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
pos: noun
examples: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
gloss: Something that envelops; a wrapping.
pos: noun
gloss: A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
pos: noun
examples: They have no internal or external support structure, being simply a fabric bag (or envelope) filled with a lighter than air gas. Inside the envelope are one or more "ballonets", or smaller bags, which help maintain the envelope's shape.
gloss: A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
pos: noun
gloss: A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
pos: noun
gloss: The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
pos: noun
gloss: The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
pos: noun
gloss: An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
pos: noun
gloss: The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
pos: noun
examples: push the envelope
Few of the lads had ever been in combat and they knew little about the critical tolerances of fighter aircraft during violent maneuvers. They knew where the outside of the envelope was, but they didn't know about the part where you reached the outside and then stretched her a little . . .
gloss: The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
pos: noun
gloss: An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
pos: noun
examples: make a blind all along the bottom of the ditch of the Envelope
Derived words: back-of-an-envelope
back-of-the-envelope
banker's envelope
blind envelope
brown envelope journalism
brown envelope syndrome
bubble envelope
building envelope
concave envelope
convex envelope
Dahlke envelope
envelogram
envelopathy
envelope detector
envelope paradox
envelope-stuffer
envelope stuffer
flight envelope
floral envelope
Gaza Envelope
invitation envelope
kinematic envelope
manila envelope
nuclear envelope
opening of an envelope
padded envelope
penalty envelope
push the edge of the envelope
push the envelope
red envelope
return envelope
stretch the envelope
stripped-envelope supernova
transenvelope
viral envelope
window envelope
work envelope
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