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enclosure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun enclosure has 4 senses
- enclosure(n = noun.artifact) Array - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose; Array is a kind of area
- enclosure(n = noun.act) enclosing, envelopment, inclosure - the act of enclosing something inside something else; Array is a kind of insertion, introduction, intromission
- enclosure(n = noun.object) natural enclosure - a naturally enclosed space; Array has particulars: cavern, matrix
- enclosure(n = noun.communication) inclosure - something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter; Array is a kind of document, papers, written document
has particulars: cage, coop, cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, hold, storage area, catchall, chamber, compound, dock, echo chamber, lock, lock chamber, nacelle, pen, pit, pen, playpen, plenum, dog pound, pound, niche, recess, vivarium, yard
Derived forms verb enclose1, verb enclose2
has particulars: boxing, packing, encasement, incasement
Derived forms verb enclose1, verb enclose3
is a kind of space
Derived form verb enclose2
Derived form verb enclose4
CIDE DICTIONARY
enclosure, n.
Inclosure. See Inclosure. [1913 Webster]
" The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
enclosure, n. (also inclosure)
1 the act of enclosing, esp. of common land.
2 Brit. an enclosed space or area, esp. for a special class of persons at a sporting event.
3 a thing enclosed with a letter.
4 an enclosing fence etc.
1 the act of enclosing, esp. of common land.
2 Brit. an enclosed space or area, esp. for a special class of persons at a sporting event.
3 a thing enclosed with a letter.
4 an enclosing fence etc.
Etymology
AF & OF (as ENCLOSE)
THESAURUS
enclosure
abatis, advanced work, arena, bailey, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barnyard, barricade, barrier, bartizan, barton, bastion, battlement, boundary, box, breastwork, bulwark, cage, casemate, cheval-de-frise, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, circumvallation, close, compound, confine, container, containment, contravallation, coop, corral, cote, counterscarp, court, courtyard, crib, croft, curtain, curtilage, delimited field, demibastion, dike, dog pound, drawbridge, earthwork, embracement, encincture, encirclement, enclave, encompassment, enfoldment, entanglement, envelopment, environment, escarp, escarpment, farmyard, fence, field, fieldwork, fold, fortalice, fortification, girding, girdling, glacis, ground, hedge, hell, hutch, inclusion, involvement, kraal, limbo, list, loophole, lunette, machicolation, manger, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, paddock, pale, paling, palisade, parados, parapet, park, pasture, pen, penfold, pigpen, pigsty, pinfold, place of confinement, polygon, portcullis, postern gate, pound, purgatory, quad, quadrangle, rail, railing, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, rink, run, runway, sally port, scarp, sconce, square, stall, stockade, stockyard, sty, surrounding, tenaille, theater, toft, vallation, vallum, wall, work, yard
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