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ENCLOSURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of enclosing something inside something else
Synonyms:
enclosing; enclosure; envelopment; inclosure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("enclosure" is a kind of...):
insertion; introduction; intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enclosure"):
boxing; packing (the enclosure of something in a package or box)
encasement; incasement (the act of enclosing something in a case)
Derivation:
enclose (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering)
enclose (surround completely)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("enclosure" is a kind of...):
area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enclosure"):
yard (an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock))
vivarium (an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions)
niche; recess (an enclosure that is set back or indented)
dog pound; pound (a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs)
plenum (an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside)
pen; playpen (a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play)
pit (an enclosure in which animals are made to fight)
pen (an enclosure for confining livestock)
nacelle (a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine)
lock; lock chamber (enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it)
echo chamber (an enclosed space for producing reverberation of a sound)
dock (an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial)
compound (an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient))
chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)
catchall (an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends)
cargo area; cargo deck; cargo hold; hold; storage area (the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo)
cage; coop (an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept)
Derivation:
enclose (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering)
enclose (close in)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
Synonyms:
enclosure; inclosure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("enclosure" is a kind of...):
document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))
Derivation:
enclose (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A naturally enclosed space
Synonyms:
enclosure; natural enclosure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("enclosure" is a kind of...):
space (an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enclosure"):
cavern (any large dark enclosed space)
matrix (an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb))
Derivation:
enclose (close in)
Context examples:
The enclosure of Norland Common, now carrying on, is a most serious drain.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A switch device consisting of thin, flexible, magnetically controlled contacts enclosed in a sealed and evacuated enclosure.
(Electrically Open Reed Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
In this park are several small enclosures for cattle, corn, and gardening.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If by the aid of the powers which you are said to possess you can find such an envelope as I describe with its enclosure, you will have deserved well of your country, and earned any reward which it lies in our power to bestow.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film or plate.
(Camera Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
When exposed to the laser, the primed mice would first stalk and then pounce on and bite any object in their enclosure, even objects without any food scent or prey value, like sticks and bottle caps.
(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)
Winthrop, however, or its environs—for young men are, sometimes to be met with, strolling about near home—was their destination; and after another half mile of gradual ascent through large enclosures, where the ploughs at work, and the fresh made path spoke the farmer counteracting the sweets of poetical despondence, and meaning to have spring again, they gained the summit of the most considerable hill, which parted Uppercross and Winthrop, and soon commanded a full view of the latter, at the foot of the hill on the other side.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
At last I found one that I thought looked promising, at the corner of a dirty lane, ending in an enclosure full of stinging-nettles, against the palings of which some second-hand sailors' clothes, that seemed to have overflowed the shop, were fluttering among some cots, and rusty guns, and oilskin hats, and certain trays full of so many old rusty keys of so many sizes that they seemed various enough to open all the doors in the world.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The report had scarcely died away ere it was repeated and repeated from without in a scattering volley, shot behind shot, like a string of geese, from every side of the enclosure.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The lawyer unsealed it, and several enclosures fell to the floor.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
