Missive vs Envelope - What's the difference?
missive | envelope |
(formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
* 2008 , Claire Armistead, The Guardian ,
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ,
(obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
missile
* Dryden
A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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, title= 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.
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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.
(nonstandard)
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As nouns the difference between missive and envelope
is that missive is (formal) a written message; a letter, note or memo while envelope is a paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.As an adjective missive
is specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.As a verb envelope is
(nonstandard).missive
English
Noun
(en noun)25 Oct 2008:
- The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.
Chapter 71:
- "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.
- Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
Adjective
(-)- a letter missive
- (Ayliffe)
- The missive weapons fly.
envelope
English
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)