Enclosed vs Disclosed - What's the difference?
enclosed | disclosed |
Contained within a three-dimensional container.
Fenced-in or surrounded.
Having closed slats.
(enclose)
(disclose)
(obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
* Francis Bacon
To uncover, physically expose to view.
* Woodward
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
* Alexander Pope
* Addison
As verbs the difference between enclosed and disclosed
is that enclosed is past tense of enclose while disclosed is past tense of disclose.As an adjective enclosed
is contained within a three-dimensional container.enclosed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* included * (fenced-in) bounded, confined, encircled, surrounded,Derived terms
* enclosednessVerb
(head)Anagrams
*disclosed
English
Verb
(head)disclose
English
Verb
(disclos)- The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
- The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
- Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
- Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
- If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.