different between enclosed vs unfenced

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

un- +? fenced

Adjective

unfenced (not comparable)

1. Not enclosed by a fence or other boundary; free to roam over a wider area.
   • 1858, The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society

     Ireland must have remained utterly unfenced and, therefore, uncultivated, for many a century; and the sparse tribes that inhabited the country must have principally subsisted venatically.

2. (figuratively) Without protection; defenseless.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 81:

     She [Nature] has made the hinder part of the Head, more strong, as being otherwise unfenced against falls and other casualties.

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