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Envelope   /ˈɛnvəlˌoʊp/   Listen
Envelope

noun
1.
A flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc..
2.
Any wrapper or covering.
3.
A curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves.
4.
A natural covering (as by a fluid).
5.
The maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft).
6.
The bag containing the gas in a balloon.  Synonym: gasbag.



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"Envelope" Quotes from Famous Books



... must have recourse to what I have already said about waves. The heart and the lungs are the two centres of automatic rhythmic movement in the body, and each projects its own series of vibrations into the etheric envelope. Those projected by the lungs are estimated to be three times the length of those projected by the heart, while those projected by the heart are three times as rapid as those projected by the lungs. Consequently if the two sets of waves ...
— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward
... favorite from a boy. More recently has become somewhat taciturn. Toward last of his stay watched the post carefully, especially foreign ones. Posted scarcely anything but newspapers. Has written to Munich. Have seen, from waste-paper basket, torn envelope directed to Amy Belden, no address. American correspondents mostly in Boston; two in New York. Names not known, but supposed to be bankers. Brought home considerable luggage, and fitted up part of house, as for a lady. This was closed soon afterwards. Left for ...
— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green
... other piece of nonsense in that,' said he, taking out a second blue envelope, and addressed to Arthur ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... Isak went down for paint, the storekeeper gave him a blue envelope with a crest on, and 5 skilling to pay. It was a telegram which had been forwarded by post, and was from Lensmand Geissler. A blessing on that man Geissler, wonderful man that he was! He telegraphed these few words, that Inger was free, "Home soonest possible: Geissler." And at ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... wind, they reminded each other of the first time they had come there, and of every detail of the elopement. When they sat down under the locust tree, Eleanor opened her pocketbook and showed him the little grass ring, lying flat and brittle in a small envelope; and he laughed, and said when he got rich he would buy her a ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland


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