different between enclosed vs jacketed

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

Adjective

jacketed

1. Dressed in a jacket (of a specified kind).
   • 1780, Kane O’Hara, “Address to the audience by Punch, on the opening of the Microcosm” in Songs in the Comic Opera of Tom Thumb the Great, Dublin: Arthur Grueber, p. iv,^[1]

     For if a peer come like a porter jacketed,

     Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,

   • 1895, Bret Harte, “A Convert of the Mission” first published in Boston Transcript, 10 December, 1895,^[2]

     From the velvet-jacketed figures lounging motionless in the shadows of the open doorways—so motionless that only the lazy drift of cigarette smoke betokened their breathing—to the reclining peons in the shade of a catalpa, or the squatting Indians in the arroyo—all was sloth and dirt.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 5,

     The residence of the British Council representative was in a quieter and perhaps more patrician part of Lija than my own. Geoffrey, sitting tied and jacketed next to Ali, who was driving, pointed this out […]

2. Encased or enclosed inside a jacket (of a specified kind).
   • 1861: United States War Dept, Annual Reports

     One of the advantages of a matrix would be to reduce the cost of our shrapnel by enabling hardened lead balls and round cases to be used in place of the steel-jacketed balls and hexagonal cases...

   • 1920: Edward J. Martin, The Traffic Library: Principles of Classification

     The metal can completely jacketed must have iron, steel or wooden jacket completely covering the can, except the mouth.

   • 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Chapter 10,^[3]

     Much of the time, when no customers came, he spent reading the yellow-jacketed trash that the library contained. Books of that type you could read at the rate of one an hour.

Verb

jacketed

1. simple past tense and past participle of jacket