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Enveloped vs Shroud - What's the difference?

enveloped | shroud |

As verbs the difference between enveloped and shroud

is that enveloped is (envelop) while shroud is to cover with a shroud.

As a noun shroud is

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

enveloped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (envelop)

    • envelop

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surround or enclose.
  • *
    • (b ) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
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    • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}

    See also

    * envelope ----

    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.