Enclosure vs Attached - What's the difference?

As a noun enclosure

is something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

past tense of attach.

in a romantic or sexual relationship.

(wikipedia enclosure)

* inclosure

(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.

(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.

(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

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 .

(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

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 .

(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .

The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

* For more on the spelling of this word, see (m).

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(en adjective)

In a romantic or sexual relationship.

As far as I know, he isn't attached , so I'm going to invite him out on a date.

I'm not ready to get attached , as I want to continue sleeping around.

(botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.

In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.

Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.

* (sharing two walls) detached, semiattached