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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any wrapper or covering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("envelope" is a kind of...):
wrap; wrapper; wrapping (the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("envelope" is a kind of...):
container (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))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "envelope"):
window envelope (an envelope with a transparent panel that reveals the address on the enclosure)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The bag containing the gas in a balloon
Synonyms:
envelope; gasbag
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("envelope" is a kind of...):
bag (a flexible container with a single opening)
Holonyms ("envelope" is a part of...):
balloon (large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
Example:
test pilots try to push the envelope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("envelope" is a kind of...):
operating capability; performance capability (the capability of a technological system to perform as intended)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A natural covering (as by a fluid)
Example:
the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("envelope" is a kind of...):
cover; covering; natural covering (a natural object that covers or envelops)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("envelope" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
Context examples:
CTD nuclear envelope phosphatase 1 (244 aa, ~28 kDa) is encoded by the human CTDNEP1 gene.
(CTD Nuclear Envelope Phosphatase 1, NCI Thesaurus)
Transmembrane envelope protein of the human immunodeficiency virus which is encoded by the HIV env gene.
(HIV Envelope Protein gp41, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A protein produced by the human immunodeficiency virus that functions as a viral attachment protein on the viral envelope.
(HIV Envelope Protein gp41, NCI Thesaurus)
Half of this I took, as you saw, and I placed it in an envelope.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A family of single-stranded, non-segmented, positive-sense RNA viruses with a hexagonal/spherical capsid and no envelope.
(Calicivirus, NCI Thesaurus)
Docosanol has a distinct mechanism of action and inhibits fusion between the plasma membrane and the herpes simplex virus envelope, thereby preventing viral entry into cells and subsequent viral activity and replication.
(Docosanol, NCI Thesaurus)
Both experimental vaccines, called VRC5283 and VRC5288, were engineered to prompt cells to produce the Zika virus structural proteins premembrane (prM) and envelope (E).
(DNA vaccines protect monkeys against Zika virus, NIH)
The entire envelope of material has an estimated mass of 500 to 700 suns, which is much more than could have been produced by an elderly or dying star.
(NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star, NASA)
The chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4 in macrophages are activated by their peptide ligands and also by the HIV envelope protein GP120 during HIV infection.
(CCR5 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
CD4 Antigen also serves as an HIV receptor, binding directly to the envelope protein gp120 on HIV.
(CD4 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)
