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Enclosure vs Crib - What's the difference?

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Enclosure is a related term of crib.


As nouns the difference between enclosure and crib

is that enclosure is (countable) something enclosed, ie inserted into a letter or similar package while crib is (us) a baby’s bed (british and australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

As a verb crib is

to place or confine in a crib.

enclosure

English

(wikipedia enclosure)

Alternative forms

* inclosure

Noun

  • (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.

    • Usage notes

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

    crib

    English

  • (Canada) A small raft made of timber.

    • Synonyms

    * (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

    Verb

    (cribb)
  • To place or confine in a crib.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  • * I. Taylor
    • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
  • To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
    • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
  • To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  • (obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
    • It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848, Chapter 14.
  • (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1957 , author=L.P.Hartley , title=Hireling , chapter=xi , url= , isbn= , page=90 , passage=She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.}}
  • To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  • * Gauden
    • Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
  • (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

    • Derived terms

    * cribber

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