different between elope vs envelope

English

Alternative forms

• ellope (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aloper (“to abduct, run away”), from a Germanic source, either Middle Dutch ontlopen (“to run away”) or a predecessor thereof. Equivalent to and- +? lope as well as and- +? leap (these being doublets). Cognate with German entlaufen (“to escape”), Danish undløbe (“to run away”). More at lope.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l??p/, /??l??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??lo?p/, /??lo?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Verb

elope (third-person singular simple present elopes, present participle eloping, simple past and past participle eloped)

1. (intransitive, of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour.
2. (intransitive, of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.
   • 1996, "Introduction", in The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 4, 1805-1810 (eds. Edward A. Bloom & Lillian D. Bloom), Associated University Presses (1996), ?ISBN, page 30:

     Although Cecilia was the youngest of the surviving Thrale daughters, she had been the first to marry, eloping to Gretna Green in 1795 with John Meredith Mostyn of neighboring Llewesog Lodge. Both were underage.

   • 2009, Jan Springer, Intimate Stranger, Ellora's Cave (2009), ?ISBN, page 132:

     Although they had eloped in Vegas, she'd insisted he wear a tuxedo and she buy a wedding dress at one of the local stores.

   • 2012, Shirley Jump, One Day to Find a Husband, Harlequin (2012), ?ISBN, page 136:

     They knew each other for maybe a month before they eloped in Vegas.

3. (intransitive, dated) To run away from home (for any reason).
   • 1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings

     If we'd been a bit quicker, we could have caught Gowan before he eloped

Derived terms

• elopement

Translations

Further reading

• elopement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

From French enveloppe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.v?.l??p/, /??n.v?.l??p/
• (General American) enPR: än?v?l?p', ?n?v?l?p'; IPA^(key): /??n.v??lo?p/, /??n.v??lo?p/

Noun

envelope (plural envelopes)

1. A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
2. Something that envelops; a wrapping.
3. A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
4. (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.
5. (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
6. (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
7. (computing) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
8. (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
9. (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
10. (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
11. An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wilhelm to this entry?)

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on envelopes used for mailing
• Wikipedia article on envelopes in geometry

Etymology 2

See envelop.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n-v?l'?p, IPA^(key): /?n?v?l?p/
• for audio, see envelop

Verb

envelope (third-person singular simple present envelopes, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped)

1. Archaic form of envelop.
   • 1877, James Booth, A Treatise on Some New Geometrical Methods (page 209)

     Again, if the plane of the impressed couple intersects the mean plane between N and C, it will envelope the cone whose focals are ON, ON?, and whose internal axis is therefore OA.

Portuguese

Etymology

From French enveloppe, from envelopper.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.v?.?l?.p?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.ve.?l?.pi/
• Hyphenation: en?ve?lo?pe

Noun

envelope m (plural envelopes)

1. envelope