Word Finder - envelope

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

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Something that envelops; a wrapping.

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

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

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

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The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.

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The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.

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An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes

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The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.

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The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.

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An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

Ask her where the envelope was postmarked.

He pulled photos from the envelope as he spoke.

He pulled an envelope from his pocket.

In the morning, they found an envelope on the counter in the kitchen.

Carefully lifting the envelope from the drawer, she opened it.

Pressing on the sides of the envelope to open the end, he blew into it, exposing the letter inside.

She glanced down at the envelope and then tossed it on the table.

She snatched the envelope from his hand.

She put the letter back in the envelope.

He carefully folded the letter and placed it back in the envelope.

He began perusing a fat envelope of Midwest travel information secured for his July Iowa bike tour.

Finally he pulled out an envelope and shut the drawer.

Loosening his tie, he dropped into the leather office chair and picked up the envelope.

Team members must submit their applications together in one envelope.

The application lists several cities; you need to list the one closest to you on the mailing envelope.

For example, HBO typically shows more nudity than prime-time stations like ABC or CBS, but every once in a while, even the latter likes to push the envelope.

You must also include, printed clearly on the outside of the envelope (including overnight mail or courier envelopes), the number that corresponds to the city nearest you.

Also be sure to send a stamped, self-addressed envelope so that your tickets can be sent to you.

The planner asks for the couples' budget and is handed a sealed envelope containing the spending limit.

Any one of these is a " parallel " of the given curve; and it can be obtained as the envelope of a circle of constant radius having its centre on the given curve.

This significant but evanescent phenomenon, which represents the direct emissions of a low-lying solar envelope, was photographed by William Shackleton on the occasion of an eclipse in Novaya Zemlya on the 9th of August 1896; and it has since been abundantly registered by exposures made during the obscurations of 1898, 1900, 1901 and 1905.

Precise conclusions are possible only when a gaseous body is transparent through and through, so that the gas emits its characteristic rays - or when the rays from an incandescent body of any kind pass through a gaseous envelope at a temperature lower than that of the body itself.

In this case the revelations of the spectroscope relate only to the constitution of the gaseous envelope, and not to the body below the envelope, from which the light emanates.

It seems not unlikely that the final conclusion will be that instead of the reflecting matter being composed of solid particles it is an exceedingly tenuous gaseous envelope surrounding the sun and revolving on an axis the mean position of which is between that of the sun's equator and that of the invariable plane of the solar system.

The term bract is properly applied to the leaf from which the primary floral axis, whether simple or branched, arises, while the leaves which arise on the axis between the bract and the outer envelope of the flower are bracteoles or bractlets.

Whatever be its colour, the external envelope of the flower is considered as the calyx.

The corolla is the more or less coloured attractive inner floral envelope; generally the most conspicuous whorl.

The structure is often a complex one, the central region containing an elaborate system of numerous anastomosing steles, accompanied by sclerenchyma; the cortex is permeated or coated by a multitude of adventitious roots, forming a thick envelope to the stem.

While they were eating desert, one of the servants came in and handed Alex an envelope.

Smiling, he shoved them back in the envelope and handed it to Carmen.

The man shrugged and handed Yancey an envelope.

In the absence of rotation, the core slowly accretes gas that falls on to it from the envelope which is still collapsing isothermally.

This English antique envelope style clutch is made from the skin of a small alligator with its head adorning the front.

A large bribe in a brown envelope will secure total anonymity to the client in question!

The ballot paper must then be sealed in the ballot paper envelope.

Assessment of naturally ventilated building envelope to control noise break-in.

A dusty envelope made the apparent brightness of the star to fade below the naked eye visibility.

I will put the contents of your envelope in the small casket where I keep the things which have become sacred to me.

Envelope membranes from spinach chloroplasts are a site of metabolism of fatty acid hydroperoxides.

Within this range, a closed circuit of the elements which form this air envelope takes place.

Early Centimetric Ground Radars - A Personal Reminiscence In all these cases, however, the resonant circuit was external to the vacuum envelope.

From scribbled notes on the back of an envelope during a phone conversation.

Please return the counterfoils and money, in an envelope, to the School Office as soon as possible.

Please return this questionnaire in the postage paid envelope enclosed by 13th November 2000 at latest.

Please enclose a stamped address envelope with checks for return of tickets.

I began to push the envelope, to go where reality mixed with fantasy.

A stamped, addressed envelope should be enclosed for reply.

You can support this life changing work by using the enclosed envelope.

A pre-addressed envelope to be returned to the mailer.

Copies can also be sent out upon receipt of a stamped, self-addressed envelope.