Blockade vs Enclosure - What's the difference?
blockade | enclosure |
The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
By extension, any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
(nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
(chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it
To create a blockade against.
(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
As nouns the difference between blockade and enclosure
is that blockade is blockade while enclosure is (countable) something enclosed, ie inserted into a letter or similar package.blockade
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(wikipedia blockade)Noun
(en noun)Verb
Anagrams
*enclosure
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(wikipedia enclosure)Alternative forms
* inclosureNoun
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
- ''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
- The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
- The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure .
- The enclosure of public land is against the law.
- The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
- At first, untrained horses resist enclosure .
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .