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Restricting vs Enclosing - What's the difference?

restricting | enclosing |

As verbs the difference between restricting and enclosing

is that restricting is while enclosing is .

As an adjective restricting

is serving to restrict.

As a noun enclosing is

that which encloses.

restricting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • serving to restrict
  • 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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