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Enclosure vs Enclosing - What's the difference?

enclosure | enclosing |

As nouns the difference between enclosure and enclosing

is that enclosure is something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package while enclosing is that which encloses.

As a verb enclosing is

present participle of lang=en.

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).

    enclosing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which encloses.
  • * Bible, Exodus 39
    • And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings .
  • The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
  • * 1995 , Frederick Garber, Repositionings (page 131)
    • Duane Duck'' is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, ''Duane Duck'' is a play ''about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings .

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