Suffice vs Encapsulate - What's the difference?
suffice | encapsulate |
To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
* Milton
To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
* 1838 , The Church of England quarterly review (page 203)
To furnish; to supply adequately.
(label) To enclose something as if in a capsule.
* 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, "
(label) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
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To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
(label) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
As verbs the difference between suffice and encapsulate
is that suffice is to be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate while encapsulate is (label) to enclose something as if in a capsule.suffice
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Verb
(suffic)- Two capsules of fish oil a day suffices .
- To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice ?
- A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
- Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.
Usage notes
* Commonly used in the phrase suffice it to say. * Mostly used in modal verb constructions, such as: Half a loaf per day will suffice'''.'' This is much more common than the direct form ''Half a loaf per day '''suffices .External links
* * * ----encapsulate
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(encapsulat)Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):
- At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years.