Wordie: Envelope

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(n): any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

(n): any wrapper or covering

(n): the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

(n): a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves

(n): the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

(n): a natural covering (as by a fluid)

(n): a natural object that covers or envelops

(n): the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)

(n): the capability of a technological system to perform as intended

(n): the bag containing the gas in a balloon

(n): a flexible container with a single opening

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8 months ago reesetee said:

Let's hope they won't be overly missive parents.

8 months ago mollusque said:

And having baby vellums.

8 months ago bilby said:

I've heard about that sort of thing. A letter and a greeting card veloping together to another country.

8 months ago reesetee said:

There! Problem solved. :-)

8 months ago sarra said:

Maybe they don't need veloping?

8 months ago reesetee said:

Postcards wouldn't do; they don't need ON...EN...oh, never mind.

8 months ago bilby said:

Now that you've caught yourself reesetee, what's the punishment? A penitence of postcards?

8 months ago sarra said:

I try to stick with “onvelope”*. Though if one is sufficiently RP I suspect one would say “onv'lope”, which the trusty OED hints at in its /'É’nv(É™)lÉ™ÊŠp/.

Of course, oikolect chez nous proudly renders the word, quite intentionally, as “onv'lopp” :)

*no pun intended

8 months ago kewpid said:

I don't think so c_b. I pronunciate it how you pronunciate it :)

8 months ago mollusque said:

On-velope when it contains a desired invitation, EN-velope when it contains a bill.

8 months ago reesetee said:

I've caught myself pronouncing it two ways, with no discernible reason--either ON-velope or EN-velope. As a verb, though, always en-VEL-op.

9 months ago chained_bear said:

I say en-velope for the object, and en-vellup only when it's the verb--to envelop. Is it pronounced differently in Britain?

9 months ago kewpid said:

en-velope, or on-velope? or en-vellup!?

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