Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the act of surrounding something with something else, so that it is inside the surrounding object.
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- verb Present participle of
enclose .
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- noun the act of enclosing something inside something else
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Examples
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Dunn, he wrote, had succeeded in enclosing a whole people in glass cases ....
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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Indeed, not everyone with the Redskins is into the idea of enclosing themselves in the claustrophobic, oxygen-rich tent.
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Things Quotation Marks Shouldn’t Do « Motivated Grammar 2007
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The enclosing is a somewhat troublesome business, but results in much better steaming power, especially in cold weather.
Things To Make Archibald Williams
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Minkelers tells us how he made his precious discovery: from the very beginning of his experiments he had had the idea of enclosing oil in the barrel of a gun and heating it in a forge.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Such of them as are able-bodied obtain employment without much difficulty, and may not perhaps have much reason to complain of deficiency of the first requisites of life; but the quarter they inhabit is described as enclosing a larger amount of filth, crime, misery, and disease, than could have been supposed to exist in one spot in any civilized country.
The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836
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Finding himself obliged to build a small cemented wall between the dam of the Gabou and the park of Montegnac along the base of the hill called especially La Correze, Gerard took up the idea of enclosing the whole forest and thus uniting it with the park.
The Village Rector Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Lisa Cantini Seguin is not keen on the idea of enclosing her father's mural in a false wall.
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Lisa Cantini Seguin is not keen on the idea of enclosing her father's mural in a false wall.
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