Enclosure vs Shelter - What's the difference?
enclosure | shelter |
(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
As nouns the difference between enclosure and shelter
is that enclosure is (countable) something enclosed, ie inserted into a letter or similar package while shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.As a verb shelter is
to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.enclosure
English
(wikipedia enclosure)Alternative forms
* inclosureNoun
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
- ''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
- 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 .
- 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 .
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .
Usage notes
* For more on the spelling of this word, see (m).shelter
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Derived terms
* bus shelterVerb
(en verb)- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.