Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box. Also
capsuled .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Botany) Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
encased ,closed in by acapsule
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb enclose in a capsule
- adjective used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule
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Examples
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It's been a while since I bothered to capsulate him, but his column for the Sunday Times is worth it because it proves -- as if there was any doubt -- that he is such a sanctimonious toady to the Bush administration.
February 2006 2006
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To capsulate photojournalism: photojournalists tell stories with visual verbs.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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Maureen Dowd made a couple of points that have cropped up elsewhere that seem to capsulate the core response from the left regarding the Schiavo case:
Dowd on Schiavo Jeffrey Hill 2005
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And what I have learned -- I could spend several hours talking to you about it but let me try to capsulate just very quickly.
Remarks By The President And Race Advisory Board ITY National Archives 1998
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All Sunday's loss did was capsulate everything that's been wrong with the 49ers this season.
SFGate: Top News Stories dwhite@sfchronicle.com (David White 2010
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It's a stream-of-consciousness outpouring that attempts to capsulate portions or fragments of the 'Haleigh Cummings' Homicide Case. '
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It's a stream-of-consciousness outpouring that attempts to capsulate portions or fragments of the 'Haleigh Cummings' Homicide Case. '
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We steam the placenta and dehydrate it and capsulate it.
No Stories found Shannon Powell 2010
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A simple capsulate would be to say "If you worked for it, earned it, then you get to keep it."
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In light of the large impact of our financials from the Microsoft settlement I would like to step back for a moment and capsulate these results to give you a better sense of our ongoing cash flows.
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