Envelope vs Shroud - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between envelope and shroud

is that envelope is a paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing while shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

As verbs the difference between envelope and shroud

is that envelope is an alternative spelling of lang=en while shroud is to cover with a shroud.

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.

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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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shroud

English

(wikipedia shroud)

Noun

(en noun)

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

* Sandys

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

* Shakespeare

a dead man in his shroud

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

* Byron

Jura answers through her misty shroud .

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

* Chapman

The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

* Withals

a vault, or shroud , as under a church

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.

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One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Verb

(en verb)

To cover with a shroud.

* Francis Bacon

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.

To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

* Dryden

Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.

To take shelter or harbour.

* Milton

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.