Envelop is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENVELOP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cover completely
• wrap up, cover, or surround completely
• (of troops) surround (an enemy force)
• wrap up, enclose
• To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.
• enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
NOUN:
• That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
• The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.
• A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
• A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
• A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.

Words related to ENVELOP

enveloped15 enveloper14 enveloping16 envelopment18 envelopments19 envelops13

Words that contain ENVELOP

envelope13 envelops13 enveloped15 enveloper14 envelopes14 disenvelop16 envelopers15 enveloping16 disenvelops17 envelopment18 disenveloped19 envelopments19 disenveloping20

How to use ENVELOP in a sentence

• Two parties, armed with lead and old iron, envelop themselves in a cloud of smoke, and pitch their lead and old iron about in all directions.
• Its two windows, distinguished by eternally half-drawn blinds of yellow, looked out upon the veranda, permitting a decorous gloom to envelop the sacred precincts.
• His words rose with the incense to the arches of the old church, but his soul remained below, fluttering round that fair young girl, as if to envelop her with embraces.
• The sun was already low in the sky, and it was not long before darkness began to envelop wood and stream.
• In the old fashioned machines the thread required to envelop the shuttle was dragged downward through the cloth, while the needle still remained in the fabric.
• His brows were bright with the divine that was in him, and brighter yet shone his eyes from the midst of the radiance that seemed to envelop him as a mantle.
• The things that they envelop come as separate in some ways and as continuous in others.
• She was never tempted to become an atheist, never lost sight of the Divine in life, yet the necessity of a terrible fatalism seemed to envelop her.
• It was a dark night, neither moon nor stars to be seen, and after we had passed the church the darkness seemed to envelop us, and I could barely distinguish the path.
• It must completely envelop the stem, root and branches of the trees.
• A system of oppression was maturing which was soon to envelop them in the obscurity of darkest night.
• But Paris escapes the horrible fogs which envelop London in November and December.
• In her arms she held a bundle of rags, which proved to envelop a tiny new born baby, nursing at her breast.
• Rennenkampf to withdraw to the border were making an attempt to envelop his left wing.
• The President put the papers away in an envelop, and no word of the affair came to the public until a quarter of a century later, when the details were published in Mr.
• This broad expanse of cool, refreshing water could not burn up, no matter how fervent the heat that might envelop its shores.
• The soul, on being divested of its earthly envelop, is borne aloft.
• This frightful envelop of superstitious fictions cannot be without some important reality within.
• We must dispel the illusion and the darkness which envelop it, and display, in its full danger and true colors, the ruin that is brought to our doors.
• The conflagration it will provoke will envelop the whole earth.
• They envelop their meanings in secret statements and insinuations.
• Theirs is the duty to hold, aloft and undimmed, the torch of Divine guidance, as the shades of night descend upon, and ultimately envelop the entire human race.
• O servant of the Kingdom! Know for a certainty that this light of reality shall eventually envelop the world, illuminating the East and the West entirely.
• Also that a pride of family, that lingers persistently in some parts of New England, seemed to concentrate itself and envelop him as in a cloud.
• I unfolded my paper and proceeded to envelop myself in the usual way.
• The outlines of her nature were firmly drawn, and, even through the mists which envelop royalty, clearly visible.
• A kind of bronze mist seemed to envelop her head, as the dull-tawny sunset light fell on her from those broad windows.
• Vandervelde paused in his dictation, tore open the envelop, and read the message.
• If, on the other hand, they prove sound, some of the mists which at present envelop the figure of Giorgione will have been dispersed.
• Near the close of the war he was wounded on the Weldon road, along which Grant was extending his left wing to envelop Petersburg.
• The amber light of the sunset seemed to envelop her softly as if she were surrounded by happiness.
• Here he staid but to envelop the maiden in his own heavy cloak, which he had snatched up when the rain began.

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