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Definition: Enclosure |
EnclosureNoun1. Artifact consisting of a space that has been enclosed for some purpose. 2. The act of enclosing something inside something else. 3. A naturally enclosed space. 4. Something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enclosure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A part providing protection of equipment against certain external influences and, in any direction, protection against direct contact. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | A surrounding case designed to provide a degree of protection for equipment against a specified environment and to protect personnel against accidental contact with the enclosed equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Repository for electronic or electric equipment, such as card chassis, power supply, power disconnect or power lamps. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | An assembly consisting of an enclosure, one or more loudspeaker units, and other associated parts, such as filters, transformers or other passive elements. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | The housing around a motor that supports the active parts and protects them. They come in different varieties (open, protected) depending on the degree of protection required. (references) |
Environment | Putting an airtight, impermeable, permanent barrier around asbestos-containing materials to prevent the release of asbestos fibers into the air. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Any fenced area, generally of limited extent, within which livestock or wild animals may be held for a specific purpose. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | In the domain of refrigeration and air conditioning, this term is taken for a totally enclosed space. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prior to the 18th century, agriculture was much the same across Europe, and had been since before the Middle Ages. The system in operation was essentially post-feudal, with each villager subsistence farming their own strips of land in one of three large open fieldss.
From as early as the 12th century, some open fields in Britain were being enclosed into individually owned fields, with the process taking off rapidly in the 15th and 16th centuries as sheep farming grew more profitable. This led to villagers losing their land and grazing rights, and left many unemployed. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the practice of enclosure was denounced by the Church, and legislation was drawn up against it, but the developments in agriculture during the 18th century required large, enclosed fields in order to be workable. This led to a series of government acts, culminating finally in the General Enclosure Act of 1801.
While the villagers received compensation for their strips, it was minimal, and the loss of rights for the rural populace led to an increased dependency on the Poor Law. Only a few found work in the (increasingly mechanised) enclosed farms. Most were forced to relocate to the cities and find work in the emerging factories, opening the way for the Industrial Revolution.
By the end of the 19th century the process of enclosure was largely complete.
In The Sibling Society (ISBN 0679781285) the American poet Robert Bly said that enclosure did a lot to damage the closeness of fathers and sons—an estrangement he says continues to this day.
In Chapter Seven of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Peter Kropotkin describes Enclosure at great length. [1]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Enclosure."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Enc. | English | Enclosure | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EnclosureSynonyms: enclosing (n), envelopment (n), inclosure (n), natural enclosure (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Oh, just putting it back in its enclosure. (Fierce Creatures; writing credit: John Cleese; Iain Johnstone) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Inside a sound room, or anechoic chamber, Everett Foreman (left) and Florida A&M University student Cornelius Dunmore insert an insect detection device into another kind of portable, sound-insulated enclosure. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Closet without Enclosure. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Navy ships moored in an anchorage area, surrounded by anti-torpedo nets, 12 July 1942. Three ships nested together in the center are (from bottom): USS Ballard (AVD-10); USS Hammondsport (APV-2) and USS Vestal (AR-4). A garbage lighter (YG) is also inside the enclosure, at right. Credit: NAVY. |  | Bird's-eye view of a Native American deer hunt in New France (Canada), showing Indians driving deer towards fences into narrow enclosure to be killed, and two dead deer hanging from bent trees. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sheep and goats in fenced enclosure. Sutton County, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Kids in fenced enclosure in front of stockade. Ranch in Sutton County, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Leading bull into enclosure. Farm near Rockville, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Country graveyard in isolated cut-over forest land near Tipler, Wisconsin. Note fresh grave outside the enclosure. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | So that, in effect, there was never the less left for others because of his enclosure for himself: for he that leaves as much as another can make use of, does as good as take nothing at all. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Trade | Egypt | Second: Sustaining exemption for commodities imported for Duty Free Shops from the condition of labeling in Arabic, and instead, permitting the use of a foreign language (English or French), in addition to enclosure of a user's manual in a foreign language (English or French) for electric appliances imported for these companies, applies as per the Minister's approval. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Enclosure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.36% of the time. "Enclosure" is used about 529 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.36% | 515 | 11,788 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.7% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.75% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 529 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "enclosure": acoustic enclosure ♦ endogenous enclosure ♦ exogenous enclosure ♦ gun enclosure ♦ motor enclosure ♦ natural enclosure ♦ prisoner of war enclosure ♦ side enclosure. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "enclosure": anti-enclosure, city-enclosure, pre-enclosure. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
enclosure | 784 | computer enclosure | 97 |
patio enclosure | 597 | external enclosure | 87 |
shower enclosure | 466 | cat enclosure | 83 |
firewire enclosure | 420 | electrical enclosure | 79 |
hoffman enclosure | 362 | tub enclosure | 73 |
usb enclosure | 360 | rack mount enclosure | 72 |
sub woofer enclosure | 295 | custom enclosure sub woofer | 72 |
pool enclosure | 272 | custom enclosure | 64 |
electronic enclosure | 148 | bath tub enclosure | 60 |
hard drive enclosure | 126 | enclosure glass shower | 58 |
spa enclosure | 123 | sub enclosure | 55 |
screen enclosure | 122 | drive enclosure | 50 |
swimming pool enclosure | 120 | deck enclosure | 50 |
porch enclosure | 117 | hammond enclosure | 49 |
nema enclosure | 115 | fiberglass enclosure | 49 |
enclosure for trampoline | 112 | pc enclosure | 49 |
hot tub enclosure | 108 | fiberglass sub woofer enclosure | 44 |
speaker enclosure | 106 | screen pool enclosure | 39 |
plastic enclosure | 105 | reptile enclosure | 39 |
rack enclosure | 101 | screened enclosure | 38 |
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| Language | Translations for "enclosure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vend i rrethuar (inclosure, run), thark (all children from one marriage, basket for bearing of grass, especial closed cupboard for dairy produce, inclosure, litter, offspring, sty, stye), shtojcë (annex, annexe, appendage, appendix, appurtenance, enlargement, et cetera, etcetera, inclosure, insertion, intercalation, interlineation, prolongation, rider, supplement), rrethim (embrace, encirclement, entourage, hoarding, inclosure, investment, leaguer, siege), mur (inclosure, masonry, wall), mbyllje (closing, closure, committal, conclusion, confinement, entombment, finality, furl, impoundment, imprisonment, inclosure, locking, obturation, occlusion, offishness, shutdown, windup), bashkëmbyllje (inclosure). (various references) | |
Arabic | محتويات مغلف, مسيج (fenced), حظيرة مسيجة, حظيرة (cowshed, pen, stockade, stockyard, yard), تسييج (fencing), تطويق (circling, curb, embracing, encirclement, ringing, surrounding), سياج (corral, dike, fence, fencing, hedgerow, paling, rail, weir), إنحباس, إرفاق في رسالة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | включение (nodule), ограждане (fencing), оградено място (close, pen), приложение (addendum, adjunct, annex, application, practice). (various references) | |
Chinese | 附件 , 閑 (leisure, not busy, to be unoccupied, to stay idle), 圍牆 , 封入物 (inclosure), 囗 . (various references) | |
Czech | příloha (annex, annexe, appendix, fixings, insert, side order), ohrada (barrier, fence, hoarding, paling, pen, wall). (various references) | |
Danish | enclosure (case, housing), svoeb (husk), solfangerkasse (casing, collector box), lukket rum (confined space, enclosed space), kapsling (can, canning, clad, cladding, jacket, sheath), indkapsling (assembly, can, canning, case, clad, cladding, encapsulation, enclosures, information hiding, in-ground encapsulation, jacket, packaging, sealing, sheath), indhegning (fence, palisade), hylster (cartridge, case, coating, core, envelope, jacket, magnetic tape cartridge, pack, paper core, sheath, sheathing, theca, thimble, tube), housing (case, housing), højttalerkasse (acoustic enclosure, loud-speaker enclosure), case (case, housing), beskyttelsesgitter. (various references) | |
Dutch | omheind terrein (corral), kraal (bead, corral). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĉirkaŭbarejo (corral). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیوست (Annex, Appendage), میان بار, محوطه (Close, Lot, Precinct, Run), چینه کشی , چینه (Bait, Layer, Stratum), چاردیواری , حصارکشی , حصار (Barrier, Cramp, Fence, Fold, Fort, Hag, Hedge, Inclose, Wall), ضمیمه (Addendum, Adjunct, Annex, Appendage, Appendix, Appurtenance, Supplement), دیوار (Bulkhead, Curtain, Fence, Screen, Wall). (various references) | |
Finnish | aitaus (corral, pen). (various references) | |
French | enclos (enclosed areas, enclosures), enceinte (enceinte). (various references) | |
German | umzäunung (fence, fencing, fencing round, palisade, rails), beilage (addendum, addition, additive, inclosure, insert, insertion, inset, side dish, supplement), koppel (belt, coupler, pack, paddock, string, waist belt), anlage (aptitude, arrangement, conception, construction, equipment, garden, grounds, installation, investment, layout, location, Park, plant, planting, predisposition, processor, scheme, structure, system, talent, tendency, unit). (various references) | |
Greek | περίφραγμα (enclosed areas, enclosures, paddock), περίφραξη (paling). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטח '"ור, קרפיף (yard), חצר (courtyard, yard), '"ור (fenced, fencing, restraint, restriction), '"ר (fence, hedge, limit, restriction), בצר" (in a spot, in deep water, in trouble, sheepfold), סו'" (fence, hedge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bekerítés (encirclement, envelopment, inclosure, poling, roundup, surrounding), sövény (fence, hedge), melléklet (annex, annexe, appendices, appendix, section), kerítés (bawd, fence, pale, paling, palisade, railing), körülkerítés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengurungan. (various references) | |
Italian | allegato (arrangement, inclosure, plant), recinzione (inclosure), recinto (fence, inclosure, paddock, pale, pen, Pinfold, playpen, precinct, run, yard). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 城" (castle, castle walls, fortress), 同封 , 外囲い (outer fence), 囲繞 (surrounding), 囲い込み , 囲い (paling, storage), 囲み (box, column, siege), エル"ー盤 (aerogram, angel, elbow, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elf, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engage, engagement, engagement ring, engine, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erect, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, eroticism, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP), 一郭 (one block), 別紙 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そとが"い (outer fence), べっし (another messenger, contempt, derision, slight, special messenger), どうふう, か"い"み, か"い (paling, storage), か"み (box, column, siege), いっかく (a lot, a narwhal, apparently, corner, one block, one grab, point, section), いにょう (bed wetting, enuresis, surrounding), いじょう (aberration, abnormality, above, accident, and up, as long as, assignment, beyond, change, disorder, exceeding, greater than, more than, over, since, something wrong, strangeness, surrounding, the above-mentioned, the end, this is all, transfer, transferring to), エンクロージャー , じょうかく (castle, castle walls, citadel, fortress, passenger). (various references) | |
Korean | 울안 (inclosure). (various references) | |
Manx | paal (circle, circle fold, coop, enclave, fold, pale, pavilion, pen, ring), lann (habitation), jattan, injeig (angle of land, land between a fork), croa (aperture, compound, coop, corral, enclave, eyehole, fold, notch, pen, ring). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vedlegg, innhengning. (various references) | |
Occitan | cledat, clausura. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enclosureay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cerca (about, approximately, cincture, close, corral, fence, hedge, inclosure, zariba). (various references) | |
Romanian | ogradã (court, courtyard, grounds, yard), ocol (bounds, compass, courtyard, detour, grounds, round, roundabout, surrounding, surroundings, tour, turn, wheel), despãrţiturã (bay, division, partition), curte (address, addresses, attention, attentions, bar, close, court, courtship, courtyard, forecourt, love making, sport, stack yard, suit, yard), conţinut (content, contents, essence, furniture, gut, matter, significance, substance, tenor, volume), anexã (addendum, annex, appendage, appendant, appurtenance, enlargement, extension, rider, schedule), îngrãditurã (corral, hurdle, pen, pound), îngrãdire (enclosing, fence, pale, wall), închidere (close, closing, closure, confinement, shut down, stoppage), împrejmuire (close, environment, fencing, haw), ţarc (fold, go cart, pen, rodeo). (various references) | |
Russian | вложение (inclosure, investment). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prilog (adverb, contribution, inclosure, inset, side dish), ograda (banister, dissociation, fence, haw, hedge, railing, reservation, reserve, ring fence), obor (cote, pen). (various references) | |
Spanish | cercado (fence, fenced, inclosure, pale, ring), recinto (area, campus, close, compound, department, field, inclosure, precinct, range, sector, zone). (various references) | |
Swedish | inkapsling (encapsulating, encapsulation, enrobing, in-ground encapsulation, sealing), inhägnad (fold, inclosure, pale, paling, ring fence, run, yard). (various references) | |
Turkish | eklenmiş belge, kuşatma (blockade, circumscription, encirclement, envelopment, investment, siege, surround, surrounding), kapama (closing, closure, covering, heaviness, inclosure, internment, obstruction, obturation, sealing, shutoff, shutting, shutting down, stew, turning off), duvar (barrier, dike, inclosure, mural, wall), çit (barrier, fence, fencing, hedge, hurdle, inclosure, paling, palisade, ring fence), çevrilmiş yer (inclosure), çevreleme (surround), çevirme (assembly, conversion, inclosure, rotation, spin, surround, translation, turning, twirl). (various references) | |
Turkmen | agyl (pen, sheep hold). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | огорожа (balconet, barrier, fence, fencing, haw, inclosure, pale, rail, railing), обгороджене місце (inclosure, pen), додаток (addendum, adjunct, adjunction, affix, annex, annexe, appendage, appendant, appendix, codicil, complement, inclosure, object, supplement). (various references) | |
Welsh | garth (hill), corlan (fold, pen), coetgae (hedge), caeadle, cadlys (camp), cadlas (close). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caveam, claustrum, consepta, periboli, peribolo, peribolus, saepe, saepe, sepe, saeptum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | varefshva. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | burg, geard, haga, hege, loc. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | precinctum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "enclosure": enclosures. (additional references) | |
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"Enclosure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eclosure, encloser, enclosured, enclouser, exclosure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enclosure" (pronounced enklō"zher or unklō"zher) |
| 6 | -n k l ō" zh er | inclosure. |
| 5 | -k l ō" zh er | closure, disclosure, foreclosure. |
| 3 | -ō" zh er | composure, Crozier, exposure, Mosher, overexposure. |
| 6 | -n k l ō" zh er | inclosure. |
| 5 | -k l ō" zh er | closure, disclosure, foreclosure. |
| 3 | -ō" zh er | composure, Crozier, exposure, Mosher, overexposure. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: coenures, encloser, ensorcel, lucernes. | |
-2 letters: censure, cloners, closure, coenure, colures, cornels, coulees, counsel, crenels, creoles, enclose, encores, lucerne, lucerns, necrose, recluse, unclose, unreels. | |
-3 letters: censer, censor, ceorls, cereus, cerous, ceruse, cloner, clones, clonus, closer, clours, coleus, colure, consul, cornel, cornus, coulee, course, creels, crenel, creole, cresol, crones, crouse, encore, enrols, ensoul, ensure, enures. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: enclosures. | |
+2 letters: corpulences, fluorescein, fluorescent. | |
+3 letters: corpulencies, counterpleas, counterspell, counterstyle, electrotonus, fluoresceins, fluorescence, fluorescents, forcefulness, neuroleptics, porcelaneous, pronucleuses, reinoculates, ribonuclease, underclothes. | |
+4 letters: ceremoniously, clearinghouse, commensurable, counterspells, counterstyles, courtlinesses, credulousness, enterocoelous, fluorescences, inoperculates, lecherousness, nickeliferous, nomenclatures, porcellaneous, ribonucleases. | |
+5 letters: clearinghouses, colorfulnesses, commensurately, counterplayers, counterrallies, electrocutions, electrotonuses, forcefulnesses, macronucleuses, micronucleuses, neurochemicals, nitrocellulose, nonfluorescent, nucleoproteins, percutaneously, radiolucencies, rediscountable, resurrectional, ribonucleoside, scornfulnesses, trinucleotides, ultraviolences, undiscoverable. | |
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