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ENVELOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does envelop mean?
• ENVELOP (verb)
The verb ENVELOP has 1 sense:
1. enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
Familiarity information: ENVELOP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it envelops Past simple: enveloped
/ envelopped Past participle: enveloped
/ envelopped -ing form: enveloping
/ envelopping Sense 1
Meaning:
Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap
Context example:
Fog enveloped the house
Hypernyms (to "envelop" is one way to...):
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "envelop"):
benight (envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness)
tube (place or enclose in a tube)
capsulate; capsule; capsulise; capsulize (enclose in a capsule)
engulf (flow over or cover completely)
sheathe (enclose with a sheath)
cocoon (wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection)
bathe (suffuse or envelope with something)
cover; enshroud; hide; shroud (cover as if with a shroud)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
envelopment (the act of enclosing something inside something else)
Context examples
A genus of enveloped, pleomorphically spherical viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae.
(Henipavirus, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of enveloped and pleomorphic viruses in the Paramyxoviridae family and Henipavirus genus.
(Hendra Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A small, enveloped, positive sense single strand RNA virus in the family Flaviviridae.
(hepatitis C virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A small circular enveloped RNA virus having a negative sense, single-stranded, closed circular RNA genome.
(hepatitis D virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A plasma-derived, polyclonal, intravenous immunoglobulin formulation (IVIG) containing standardized high levels of antibodies against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a single-stranded, enveloped paramyxovirus, with potential immunomodulating activity.
(High-titer RSV Immune Globulin RI-001, NCI Thesaurus)
Virions are enveloped, ether-sensitive, and vary up to 200 nm in diameter; the nucleocapsids are 100 nm in diameter and of icosahedral symmetry, with 162 capsomeres.
(Herpesvirus, NCI Thesaurus)
The sac that envelops the embryo.
(Gestational Sac, NCI Thesaurus)
An enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the family Flaviviridae, and closely related to the hepatitis C virus.
(GB virus C, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of filamentous, enveloped viruses with glycoprotein surface spikes, in the family Filoviridae.
(Ebola Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of enveloped and spherical viruses with a capsid with T=3 icosahedral symmetry in the Flaviviridae family and Flavivirus genus.
(Dengue Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
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