Envelope vs Cloud - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between envelope and cloud

is that envelope is the shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler while cloud is crystal methamphetamine.

As nouns the difference between envelope and cloud

is that envelope is a paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing while cloud is a rock; boulder; a hill.

As verbs the difference between envelope and cloud

is that envelope is an alternative spelling of lang=en while cloud is to become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.

As a proper noun Cloud is

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envelope

English

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) enveloppe, from envelopper.

Noun

(en noun)

A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.

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Something that envelops; a wrapping.

A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.

(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.

(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.

(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.

(computing) The information used for routing an email that is transmitted with the email but not part of its contents.

(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane.

(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.

(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.

An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

(Wilhelm)

Derived terms

* envelope detector * envelope paradox * envelope stuffer * padded envelope * push the envelope * return envelope * window envelope

Synonyms

* (something that envelops ): wrapper * (bag containing the lifting gas ): gasbag

Etymology 2

See (envelop).

Verb

(envelop)

(nonstandard)

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cloud

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds , it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

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Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.

*(Bible), (w) xii. 1

*:so great a cloud of witnesses

An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

(figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd , passage=The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.}}

(slang) Crystal methamphetamine.

A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "cloud")

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* anvil cloud * brain cloud * cloud bank * cloud base * cloudburst * cloud chamber * cloud computing * cloud cover * cloud mass * cloud nine * cloud number nine * cloud on title * cloud storage * cloud street * cloudish * cloudless adj * cloudlet noun * cloudlike * cloudling * cloudly * cloudy adj. * every cloud has a silver lining * funnel cloud * have one’s head in the clouds * Magellanic Cloud * mammatus cloud * molecular cloud * mushroom cloud * Oort cloud * point cloud * rain cloud * star cloud * tag cloud * thundercloud

Verb

(en verb)

To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.

The glass clouds when you breathe on it.

To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

The sky is clouded .

To make obscure.

All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.

To make gloomy or sullen.

* Shakespeare

One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, / Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.

* Milton

Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.

To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

* Shakespeare

I would not be a stander-by to hear / My sovereign mistress clouded so, without / My present vengeance taken.

To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.

to cloud yarn

* Alexander Pope

the nice conduct of a clouded cane

Anagrams

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