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envelope English

Meaning envelope meaning

What does envelope mean?
Definitions in simple English

envelope

An envelope is a paper cover that you put a letter in to send it. She put the letter into the envelope, addressed it to Charles, and put a stamp on it. An envelope is a covering that goes all the way around something. Each virus has a special envelope of protein surrounding it.

envelope

a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc any wrapper or covering the bag containing the gas in a balloon the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) test pilots try to push the envelope a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves a natural covering (as by a fluid) the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet

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Simple sentences

I forgot to attach a stamp to the envelope.
An office girl was robbed of an envelope containing 100,000 yen on her way back from the bank.
Tom sealed the envelope.
Tom put the envelope on the table.
Tom handed Mary an envelope.
Tom had an envelope in his left hand.
Did you put a stamp on the envelope?
Write your name and address on this envelope.
The paper is too big for the envelope.
I addressed the envelope containing the invitation.
I need an envelope, a piece of paper, and a pencil or a pen.
I ripped the envelope open.
He cut the envelope open.
He ripped the envelope open.
The secretary inserted the letter in the envelope.
Will you please stick a 60-yen stamp on the envelope?
Stick another stamp on the envelope.
Who has torn the envelope open?
I opened the envelope and pulled out a letter.

Movie subtitles

Now I've got this mystery envelope.
Here is the envelope.
Bring me an envelope without letterhead.
Are we going to my place for an envelope, agreed?
WHERE IS THE ENVELOPE?
The young woman as you sent the envelope to, sir.
He had a note on the envelope - said if anything happened to him. the letter should be mailed.
I'll bet that dough's in the envelope.
That envelope goes to Rocky, see?
Come on. Where's that envelope?
I wrote it down on the back of an envelope for you.
Hello, this envelope has been tampered with.
I will now read the contents of envelope number one.
That, gentlemen, is precisely the reason why the name of the alternative heir was sealed in this envelope, so that no one should know his identity.
Where's that envelope?
Yeah, the boss hands you the envelope.
As long as the envelope's closed, you're a millionaire.
Put 1,000 pengo in an envelope and have Pepi take it to Mrs. Matuschek.
Just a moment, my dear. Hadn't you better leave the envelope in here?
In the Holland box, at the post office there's an envelope with my scrawl. In that envelope, there's a parcel-room check for the bundle we got yesterday.
I must ask for that envelope.
That day, I was given a strangely sized red envelope.
Guard this envelope.
Well, now you can buy an envelope and a two-cent stamp and you can write home and tell Mama.
THAT'S THE SAME PECULIAR TYPE OF ENVELOPE.
I'll address another envelope.
When I was buying the beer, that one-eyed bartender handed me an envelope.
No hat, envelope in hand.
Take your key and open post office box 237 and take me out of my envelope and kiss me.
Put on your hat and coat and take an envelope to the messenger office to be delivered by hand.

News and current affairs

The first institutional reform takes the form of a larger envelope of official resources, which would mean a quasi-fiscal union.
Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that, worldwide, technological change could easily lead to the loss of 5-10 million jobs each year.
But even a larger envelope of official resources is not sufficient to stem the insolvency problems of Greece, Ireland, and, possibly, Portugal and Spain.
Several conclusions can be drawn from what admittedly are back of the envelope calculations.
When the trees are cut and peatlands drained, the carbon accumulated over millennia is exposed and oxidized - often in the form of fires that envelope neighboring Singapore and Malaysia in smoke.

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