Covers vs Encapsulates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between covers and encapsulates

is that covers is (cover) while encapsulates is .

is .

(head)

(pluralonly) The bedclothes; collectively, the sheets, blankets, etc.

It's time to get under the covers !

(cricket) The area of the field near cover and extra cover.

(cricket) The tarpaulins or other devices used to cover the wicket during rain, in order to prevent it getting wet.

(head)

(cover)

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(head)

(encapsulate)

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(encapsulat)

(label) To enclose something as if in a capsule.

* 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, " Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):

At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years.

(label) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.

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To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

(label) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.

* encapsulation