different between enclosed vs encysted

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?klo?zd/, enPR: ?n-kl?zd?
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?kl??zd/, enPR: ?n-kl?zd?
• Hyphenation: en?closed

Adjective

enclosed (comparative more enclosed, superlative most enclosed)

1. Contained; held within a container.

   The gas is completely enclosed within the bottle.

2. Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.

   an enclosed garden

3. (music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.

Synonyms

• (contained): included
• (fenced-in): bounded, confined, encircled, surrounded; castellated (in reference to fountains, cisterns, &c.)

Derived terms

• enclosedness

Translations

Verb

enclosed

1. simple past tense and past participle of enclose

Anagrams

• Celedons, closened

English

Etymology

From encyst +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?s?st?d/

Verb

encysted

1. simple past tense and past participle of encyst

Adjective

encysted (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Contained in a cyst.
2. (figuratively) Embedded, enclosed.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 545:

     This group included many who had been deeply encysted within the corporative fabric of the Bourbon polity – plus many for whom the chips did not fall well.