Coat vs Envelope - What's the difference?
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(lb) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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*:Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
(lb) A covering of material, such as paint.(w)
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
(lb) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.
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Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
(lb) A petticoat.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:a child in coats
The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She was sought by spirits of richest coat .
A coat of arms.(w)
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat .
A coat card.
*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
*:Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
To cover with a coat of some material
To cover as a coat.
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
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A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
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(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.
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Coat is a related term of envelope.
As nouns the difference between coat and envelope
is that coat is (lb) an outer garment covering the upper torso and arms while envelope is a paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.As verbs the difference between coat and envelope
is that coat is to cover with a coat of some material while envelope is (nonstandard).coat
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
Derived terms
* buffy coat * coat of arms * greatcoat * covert-coat * overcoatVerb
(en verb)- One can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.
Anagrams
* * * * 1000 English basic wordsenvelope
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Etymology 1
From the (etyl) enveloppe, from envelopper.Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- (Wilhelm)