It's the word of the day for February 20th.
Today's word is encapsulate, spelled E-N-C-A-P-S-U-L-A-T-E.
Encapsulate is a verb.
It literally means to enclose in, or as if in, a capsule.
but the word is more often used figuratively as a synonym of summarize,
to talk about showing or expressing a main idea or quality in a brief way.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Boston.com.
While choosing a single film to encapsulate a quarter-century of cinema is an impossible task,
Bong Joon Ho's dark comedy certainly belongs in the conversation.
A scathing satire that links two families of vastly different means,
the film's stars thinly smile through the indignities and social faux pas before a climactic and inevitable eruption of violence.
We'll keep it brief by encapsulating the history of this word in just a few sentences.
Encapsulate, and its related noun, capsule, come to English via French from capsula.
a diminutive form of the Latin noun capsa, meaning box.
Capsa also gave English the word case as it refers to a container or box,
not to be confused with the case as in just in case, which is a separate word.
The earliest examples of encapsulate are for its literal use,
to enclose something in a capsule, and they date to the late 19th century.
Its extended meaning, to give a summary or synopsis of something,
plays on the notion of a capsule being something compact,