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Definition: Encapsulate |
EncapsulateVerb1. Enclose in a capsule or other small container. 2. Put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "encapsulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
Synonyms: EncapsulateSynonyms: capsule (v), capsulize (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Encapsulate |
| Specialty definitions using "encapsulate": Internet Open Trading Protocol. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The panoply to encapsulate the unspoken nobility of a comradeship (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Encapsulation - systems are now available which use containers of inert resin when activated by the addition of hardeners encapsulate the waste into solid blocks. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Encapsulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.69% of the time. "Encapsulate" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.69% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.31% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
encapsulate | 11 |
encapsulate solvent | 3 |
address data different does encapsulate header host host in ip network sending source when which | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "encapsulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "缩. (various references) | |
Danish | indkapsle (canning, canning process, cladding, cladding process, encapsulation), indeslutte (include). (various references) | |
Dutch | inkapselen (encapsulation). (various references) | |
French | encapsuler, v., sceller, capsuler. (various references) | |
German | verkapsele, einkapseln (enclosing). (various references) | |
Greek | εγκλωβίζω (cage, encircle), εγκλείω (confine, coop, corral, encase, enclose, enshrine, immure, impound, inclose, pen), ενθυλακώνω, ενθηκεύω. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tokba zár (encase, to encapsulate, to encase), betokosodik (to encapsulate, to encyst). (various references) | |
Italian | Incapsulare (wrap). (various references) | |
Korean | 캡슐에 넣으십시". (various references) | |
Manx | cur ayns fynneig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | encapsulateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encerrar (accomodate, chamber, close, closet, coffin, contain, embay, encase, enclose, finish, girdle, hoop, imply, impound, incase, inclose, lock, lock in, mure, shut, shut in, shut up, terminate, wind up), capsular (capping). (various references) | |
Russian | изолировать (insulate, island, isolate, isolate with, marginalize, seal, seclude). (various references) | |
Spanish | encerrar herméticamente, encapsular. (various references) | |
Swedish | sammanfatta (epitomize, precis, sum up, summarize), kapsla in sig, kapsla in, förkorta (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut, reduce, short circuit, shorten, telescope). (various references) | |
Thai | สรุป (summarize), ถูกห่อหุ้มอย่างมิ"ชิ". (various references) | |
Turkish | kapsamak (be inclusive of, blanket, compass, comprehend, comprise, contain, cover, embrace, enclose, encompass, implicate, incapsulate, inclose, include, involve, span, subsume), kısa ve öz biçimde açıklamak (explain briefly, incapsulate), içermek (comprise, contain, cover, embody, enclose, implicate, imply, incapsulate, inclose, include, number, span, store, subsume), özetlemek (abridge, abstract, boil down, brief, compress, epitomize, incapsulate, outline, precis, reduce, resume, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "encapsulate": encapsulated, encapsulates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "encapsulate": microencapsulate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "encapsulate": microencapsulated, microencapsulates, nonencapsulated. (additional references) | |
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"Encapsulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encapsidate, encapsilate, encapsuled, encapsulte, encapusulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "encapsulate" (pronounced enka"psulā't) |
| 5 | -s u l ā' t | insulate, isolate, oscillate, vacillate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | annihilate, articulate, accumulate, adulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, interpolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-n-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: petulances. | |
-2 letters: aspectual, canulates, centuples, encapsule, nucleates, panetelas, peculates, pentacles, petulance, placentae, placentas, pleasance, speculate. | |
-3 letters: aculeate, analects, canulate, capelans, capelets, centuple, cleanest, cleanups, epaulets, escalate, esculent, lacunate, nauseate, nuclease, nucleate, panetela, peculate, pentacle, placates, placenta, platanes, plateaus, pleasant, saucepan, scalepan, scapulae, seaplane, spelaean, tenacula. | |
-4 letters: acetals, anapest, anlaces, canapes, cantles, canulae, canulas, capelan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-n-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: encapsulated, encapsulates. | |
+4 letters: antispeculative, nonencapsulated. | |
+5 letters: microencapsulate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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