envelope — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(noun.)

ADJ

fat, thick

self-addressed, stamped addressed

If you want a response, remember to include a self-addressed envelope with your application.

post-paid, pre-paid, reply-paid

She found a pre-paid envelope in the magazine for ordering the special offer.

padded | airmail

brown, buff, manila, plain, white

She slipped the check into a plain white envelope and mailed it that afternoon.

VERB + ENVELOPE

open, rip open, slit open, steam open, tear open

She carefully slit open the envelope to remove the wedding invitation inside.

address, mark

She carefully addressed the envelope to her grandmother's house before dropping it in the mailbox.

seal

ENVELOPE + VERB

contain sth

PREP

in an/the ~

She sealed the document in an envelope before mailing it to the office.

into an/the ~

She carefully placed the birthday card into the envelope before sealing it.

on an/the ~

The postman wrote my name on the envelope before delivering it to my house.

~ of

She carefully opened the envelope of documents from the university this morning.

PHRASES

the back of an envelope

She quickly wrote the address on the back of an envelope before mailing the letter.

Definitions

noun

1

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

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.

2

Something that envelops; a wrapping.

3

A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.

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.

4

A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.

5

A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.

verb

1

To put (something) in an envelope.

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.

This business of returning letters to the writers gives occupation to about sixty lady clerks in the “Return-Letter Department,” in the gallery up-stairs. To them belong the duties of reënveloping the letters in the well-known, yellow, dead-letter envelope, by which, under an act of Congress approved June 12, 1866, these are returned to the writers free of charge.

verb

1

Archaic form of envelop.

Again, if the plane of the impressed couple intersects the mean plane between N and C, it will envelope the cone whose focals are ON, ON′, and whose internal axis is therefore OA.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the bag containing the gas in a balloon

gasbag

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

push the envelope

To go beyond established limits; to pioneer.

They pushed the envelope on pricing derivatives.

opening of an envelope

Any kind of event or activity that may contribute to one's self-promotion or visibility in society.

She's such an attention seeker she'd turn up to the opening of an envelope!

Example Bank

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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 stu

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02

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

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03

push the envelope

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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 Ca

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05

This business of returning letters to the writers gives occupation to about sixty lady clerks in the “Return-Letter Department,” in the gallery up-stairs. To them belong the duties of reënveloping the

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06

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.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, envelope is marked as archaic, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.