different between covering vs enclosure
covering
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?v????/
Etymology 1
Present participle or participial adjective from cover (verb) +? -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of coveren, keveren (“to cover”).
Verb
covering
- present participle of cover
Etymology 2
From Middle English coverynge, -inge, keverynge, -inge [verbal noun of coveren, keveren (“to cover”)]; or, verbal noun from cover (verb) +? -ing.
Noun
covering (countable and uncountable, plural coverings)
- (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
- (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
Derived terms
- face covering
- head covering
Translations
References
covering From the web:
- what covering does the heart have
- what covering heavy metal
- what covering has a lodge
- what covering means
- what covering letter for job application
- what are the coverings of the heart
enclosure
English
Alternative forms
- inclosure (was as common as or more common until the early 1800s; now uncommon)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French enclosure.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?klo????/, /?n?klo????/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?kl????/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?n?kl????/
- Hyphenation: en?clo?sure
Noun
enclosure (countable and uncountable, plural enclosures)
- (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
- (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
- (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
- The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
- The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure.
- (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
- The enclosure of public land is against the law.
- The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
- At first, untrained horses resist enclosure.
- (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.
- (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
Usage notes
- For more on the spelling of this word, see enclose.
Translations
Anagrams
- corneules, encolures
Old French
Alternative forms
- encloseure
Etymology
enclos-, stem of enclore +? -ure.
Noun
enclosure f (oblique plural enclosures, nominative singular enclosure, nominative plural enclosures)
- enclosure (act of enclosing something)
- enclosure (enclosed area)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (encloseure)
- enclosure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
enclosure From the web:
- what enclosure means
- what's enclosures on a letter
- what's enclosure system
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- enclosure what does it mean
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- what is enclosure movement
- what does enclosure mean on a letter
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