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Close in or confine
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enclosing
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Word definitions for enclosing in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 That which encloses. 2 The act or situation by which something is enclosed. vb. (present participle of enclose English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: enclosure , envelopment , inclosure ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
enclosing \enclosing\ n. the act of surrounding something with something else, so that it is inside the surrounding object. Syn: inclosing, enclosure, envelopment, enveloping, inclosure.
Usage examples of enclosing.
It was a hot still day in late summer and this was one of the softer corners of the Dales, sheltered by the enclosing fells from the harsh winds which shrivelled all but the heather and the tough moorland gmss.
There must be one principle constituting this unit of many forms of life and enclosing the several members within the unity, while at the same time, precisely as in each thing of detail the parts too have each a definite function, so in the All each several member must have its own task--but more markedly so since in this case the parts are not merely members but themselves Alls, members of the loftier Kind.
Edgar triumphant over Edmund, the evil daughters dead, and Lear and Cordelia about to be rescued, the Apollonian form of tragedy has seemed on the verge of enclosing the Dionysiac turmoil.
Guardian wishes me to express his loving thanks for your letter of the third instant, enclosing the half-yearly reports of the Perth and Auckland Spiritual Assemblies, all of which he has been delighted to read.
Tethered to the surface by a trio of cables, the island was a light collection of flowered balconies and lacy bridgework, enclosing a central gas bag, topped by tall whimsical glass spires and greenhouse towers.
Just as the Action Picture has its photographic basis or fundamental metaphor in the long chase down the highway, so the Intimate Film has its photographic basis in the fact that any photoplay interior has a very small ground plan, and the cosiest of enclosing walls.
Blade ordered, his eyes on the clash between Jaguarundi and a Devil armed with two machetes: He counted the four rows of bandits enclosing the combatants and discovered there were 53.
The spiral became honeycombed, enclosing the children in a glowing lacelike bell jar.
After nine days the lobes opened spontaneously a little at the end enclosing the cheese, but hardly any or none was dissolved, though it was softened and surrounded by secretion.
Egg represented the concavity of the celestial sphere enclosing all things, 663-l.
His songs are, in general, pastoral pictures: he seldom finishes a portrait of female beauty without enclosing it in a natural frame-work of waving woods, running streams, the melody of birds, and the lights of heaven.
Two aisles ran along the sides of the building, enclosing two rows of wooden pews separated by the nave.
She sprang, sailed up along the wall, gripped his ankles and swarmed up him, the antigrav field again enclosing both of them.
I answered her letter in a few days, enclosing it in a letter to the marquis, in which I told him that the grace of God was never too late, and that I had never been so much pleased by any news as at hearing he was likely to have an heir.
Just at this moment I have received a good letter, enclosing a bill of exchange, which I will go and have paid .