envelope

Speech parts

1. envelope - Noun

2. envelope - Verb

Meaning

Alt. of Envelop

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wrapper gasbag cover covering packet sleeve casing sheath wrapping mailer sac case outside coat jacket
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Antonyms

free hardware ease dissolve dissipate unfold
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Hypernyms

cover curve covering container bag wrap

Hyponyms

jacket window envelope

Phrases with the word

push the envelope push the edge of envelope cell envelope envelope opener aeriform envelope bubble envelope

Examples

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Virginia Woolf

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you. Edwin Lefèvre

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. Henry James

No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder...is to snort it! I just won't do that this time! Margaret Cho

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive. Grace Slick

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. Shana Alexander

Close letter words and terms

envelogram envelop envelopathy envelope detector envelope main document envelope opener