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Enclave vs Glade - What's the difference?

enclave | glade |

As a verb enclave

is .

As a noun glade is

an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

enclave

Noun

(en noun)
  • A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
  • The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
    The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.
  • A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
  • ...it tends to make marriage itself a lifestyle enclave.
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  • Usage notes

    Enclaves are generally also exclaves, though exceptions exist (as detailed at ), and in common speech only the term enclave is used. An enclave is an area surrounded'' by another area, while an exclave is an area ''cut off from the main area. An area can be cut off without being surrounded (such as , enclaved in South Africa, but not exclaved). File:Enclave.svg, C is A's enclave and B's exclave. File:Exclave.svg, C is an exclave of B, but not an enclave of A. A pene-enclave (resp., pene-exclave) is an area that is an enclave "for practical purposes", but does not meet the strict definition. This is a very technical term.

    See also

    * exclave * pene-enclave * pene-exclave

    References

    * (group set off from a larger population by a characteristic) Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life - Page 74 by Robert Neelly Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton, Richard Madsen - 1996

    Verb

    (enclav)
  • To enclose within a foreign territory.
  • Anagrams

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    glade

    English

    (wikipedia glade)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
  • * 2003 , Newsweek, Travel: In The Trees , Nov 23, 2003
  • ... are creating more "glades ," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
  • * 1851 ,
  • [...] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
  • (colloquial) An everglade.
  • an open space in the ice on a river or lake
  • a bright surface of snow/ice ... a glade of ice
  • In the latter days of a ferocious winter, the sun dropped earthwards, having on this day pulled clear of its sluggish trajectory casting a few meek rays on the redoubtable snow and frost of the mountain glade . — Vignette: A Writing Exercise
  • (obsolete) a gleam of light; see moonglade
  • (obsolete) a bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds
  • Derived terms

    * moonglade * sunglade

    References

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