Enclose vs Shroud - What's the difference?
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To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.
To hold or contain.
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
* Sandys
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
* Shakespeare
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
* Byron
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
* Chapman
* Withals
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
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(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
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One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
To cover with a shroud.
* Francis Bacon
To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Dryden
To take shelter or harbour.
* Milton
Enclose is a related term of shroud.
As verbs the difference between enclose and shroud
is that enclose is to surround with a wall, fence, etc while shroud is to cover with a shroud.As a noun shroud is
that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.enclose
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(enclos)Usage notes
* Until about 1820, it was common to spell this word, and the derived terms encloser'' and ''enclosure'', with ''in-'' (i.e. as ''inclose'', ''incloser'', ''inclosure''). Since 1820, the forms with ''en- have predominated.[//books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=enclose%2Cinclose%2Cencloser%2Cincloser%2Cenclosure%2Cinclosure&year_start=1650&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cenclose%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cinclose%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cencloser%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cincloser%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cenclosure%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cinclosure%3B%2Cc0 Google Books Ngram Data]See also
* encircle * encloser * enclosableReferences
shroud
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(wikipedia shroud)Noun
(en noun)- swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
- a dead man in his shroud
- Jura answers through her misty shroud .
- The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
- a vault, or shroud , as under a church
Verb
(en verb)- The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
- The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
- The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
- One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
- Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
- If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.