Enclosure vs Zeriba - What's the difference?
enclosure | zeriba |
(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 fence, particularly those once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
* 1849 , O'Reilly translating Werne, Exped. Sources White Nile , II 112:
* 1895 , A. H. Keane translating W. Junker, Trav. in Afr. , I v 245:
(label) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
* 1884 Mar. 11, Times , 5:
(label) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
* 1887''' Apr. 9, ''Times , 5:
(label) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
* 1910 , :
* 1961 , P. G. Wodehouse, Ice in Bedroom , vii. 52:
To erect or take refuge within a zereba.
* 1885 July, 19th Cent. , 89:
* 1911 , "Somaliland" in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed., Vol. 25:
As nouns the difference between enclosure and zeriba
is that enclosure is (countable) something enclosed, ie inserted into a letter or similar package while zeriba is a fence, particularly those once commonly improvised in northeastern africa from thornbushes.As a verb zeriba is
to erect or take refuge within a zereba.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).zeriba
English
Alternative forms
* zareba (particularly in figurative uses) * seriba, sariba * zerybeh * zereba, zareeba, zerribaNoun
(en noun)- A shining seriba of reeds, the stalks of which ... perhaps only afford resistance to tame animals.
- The expression ‘'zeriba country ’ applied by some geographers to the northern slope of the Nile–Congo divide.
- The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha's zariba .
- ...Forming a zariba , or square, to resist cavalry.
- Once you had passed the initial zareba of fruit stands, souvenir stands, ice-cream stands, and the lair of the enthusiast whose aim in life it was to sell you picture post-cards, and had won through to the long walk where the seats were, you were practically alone with Nature.
- Owing to his obiter dicta having to be filtered through a zareba of white hair, it was not always easy to catch exactly what Mr. Cornelius said.
Verb
(en verb)- The Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near.
- On the 2nd of June a small force, zeribaed under Captain Malcolm McNeill, was attacked by the mullah's followers but repulsed after desperate fighting.