Definition of encapsulate
encapsulated
;encapsulating
transitive verb
1 : to enclose in or as if in a capsule a pilot encapsulated in the cockpit
intransitive verb
: to become encapsulated
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Examples of encapsulate in a Sentence
The contaminated material should be encapsulated and removed.
can you encapsulate the president's speech in about a paragraph?
Recent Examples of encapsulate from the Web
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The city of 200,000 also encapsulates Scotland’s desire to retain the status quo.
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The allure of effortless beauty and chic minimalism that make up the French-Girl aesthetic are as conceptually captivating as the iconic women who encapsulate it.
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However, if a doctor isn't aware that a woman with GBS plans to encapsulate her placenta—or the woman just doesn't think that her placenta could carry the bacteria—
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The bacteria have the ability to encapsulate within spores, making them resistant to usual sterilizing procedures.
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In many cases, new mothers send their baby’s placentas to processing companies that dehydrate them and encapsulate them into pills.
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The moment encapsulated everything baseball was in the 1990s and early 2000s: Home runs, the Yankees and mind-boggling performances.
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There's a power to the show that's hard to encapsulate in words, and this evocative final run cemented The Leftovers as one of the Peak TV greats.
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Between Nov. 19 and Dec. 2—the weeks encapsulating Black Friday and Cyber Monday—UPS is adding a 27-cent charge on all ground packages sent to homes.
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Did You Know?
Encapsulate and its related noun, "capsule," derive from "capsula," a diminutive form of the Latin noun capsa, meaning "box." "Capsa" also gave us our noun "case" (the container kind; the legal sense has a different origin). The original sense of encapsulate, meaning "to enclose something in a capsule," first appeared in the late 19th century. Its extended meaning, "to give a summary or synopsis of something," plays on the notion of a capsule as something compact, self-contained, and often easily digestible (as in a capsule of medicine). There is also a verb "capsule," which is more or less synonymous with "encapsulate."
First Known Use of encapsulate
1872
ENCAPSULATE Defined for English Language Learners
encapsulate
playDefinition of encapsulate for English Language Learners
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: to show or express the main idea or quality of (something) in a brief way
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: to completely cover (something) especially so that it will not touch anything else
Medical Dictionary
encapsulate
playMedical Definition of encapsulate
encapsulated
;encapsulating
transitive verb
: to surround, encase, or protect in or as if in a capsule DNA has been encapsulated in microspheres—Paul Smaglikintransitive verb
: to become encapsulated a bacillus that encapsulates in the human body
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