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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of enveloping, or of inwrapping or covering on all sides.
- noun A wrapper or covering; anything that surrounds, inwraps, or conceals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
- noun That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
enveloping - noun military An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement
- noun fencing An action to seize the opponent's
blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of enclosing something inside something else
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Examples
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Allied to values is the idea of envelopment: of a kindred notion to this is aerial perspective.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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Writing of pre-WWI Germany, Allyson Booth, a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, notes: "While the Kaiser worried about 'encirclement,' his chief strategists organized the German army for a project of 'envelopment'."
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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Things are in such a kind of envelopment that they have seemed to philosophers, not a few nor those common philosophers, altogether unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics themselves they seem difficult to understand.
The Meditations 2004
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Strategic offensive actions include envelopment which is the procedure of gaining the enemy rear, cutting communications and then destroying the enemy position; double envelopment; the turning movement; penetration and pursuit.
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Things are in such a kind of envelopment that they have seemed to philosophers, not a few nor those common philosophers, altogether unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics themselves they seem difficult to understand.
V 1909
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Things are in such a kind of envelopment that they have seemed to philosophers, not a few nor those common philosophers, altogether unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics themselves they seem difficult to understand.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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Things are in such a kind of envelopment that they have seemed to philosophers, not a few nor those common philosophers, altogether unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics themselves they seem difficult to understand.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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No defeat so lopsided struck British arms again until 1879, at Isandhlwana in the opening action of the Zulu War, when about 1,500 infantry with two guns and a corps of volunteers were wiped out by Zulus armed with short spears and hard-charging tactics of assault and envelopment.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The operational plan called for a double envelopment, sending the Ninth Army to the north of the Ruhr industrial complex and the First Army to the south.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Alexander surveyed the Indian battle order and decided to deploy a classic envelopment tactic to surround the enemy troops.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
Related Words
synonyms (85)
Words with the same meaning
- bandage
- bandaging
- beleaguerment
- besetment
- besiegement
- binder
- binding
- blanketing
- blockade
- blockading
- blocking
- blotting out
- cementwork
- cincture
- circling
- circumambience
- circumambiency
- circumcincture
- circumflexion
- circumjacence
- circumposition
- circumscription
- cloaking
- clouding
- coating
- confinement
- containment
- cordoning
- coverage
- covering
- curtaining
- dust jacket
- eclipse
- eclipsing
- embracement
- encincture
- encirclement
- enclosure
- encompassment
- enfoldment
- envelop
- envelope
- environment
- enwrapment
- enwrapping
- gift wrapping
- girding
- girdling
- hiding
- immurement
- imprisonment
- incarceration
- inclusion
- incrustation
- investment
- involvement
- jacket
- laying on
- mantling
- masking
- obduction
- obscuring
- occultation
- overlaying
- overspreading
- pargeting
- pincer movement
- plasterwork
- quarantine
- screening
- sheathing
- shielding
- shrouding
- siege
- stuccowork
- superimposition
- superposition
- surrounding
- upholstering
- upholstery
- veiling
- vertical envelopment
- wrap
- wrapper
- wrapping
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