different between encroach vs enclave

English

Etymology

From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k???t?/, /???k???t?/
• Rhymes: -??t?

Verb

encroach (third-person singular simple present encroaches, present participle encroaching, simple past and past participle encroached)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate
2. (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

     Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 252d.

     Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.

3. (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits

Derived terms

• encroacher
• encroachment

Translations

Noun

encroach (plural encroaches)

1. (rare) Encroachment.
   • 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:

     All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?

   • 2002, Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism, JHU Press 2002, p. 116:

     Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cochrane, charneco

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *incl?v?re (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.

Pronunciation

• ; IPA^(key): /??nkle?v/, /???kle?v/, /???kle?v/
• ; IPA^(key): /??nkle?v/, /??nkle?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Noun

enclave (plural enclaves)

1. A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.

   The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.

   The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.

2. A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.

   ...it tends to make marriage itself a lifestyle enclave.
3. (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
   • 2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z (page 245)

     When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.

Usage notes

Enclaves are generally also exclaves, though exceptions exist (as detailed at list of enclaves and exclaves), and in common speech only the term enclave is used.

An enclave is an area surrounded by another area, while an exclave is an area cut off from the main area. An area can be cut off without being surrounded (such as Kaliningrad Oblast, cut off from the rest of Russia by Lithuania, Poland, and the Baltic Sea) hence exclaved without being enclaved, or surrounded without being cut off (such as the Kingdom of Lesotho, enclaved in South Africa, but not exclaved).

A pene-enclave (resp., pene-exclave) is an area that is an enclave "for practical purposes", but does not meet the strict definition. This is a very technical term.

Translations

See also

• exclave
• pene-enclave
• pene-exclave

Verb

enclave (third-person singular simple present enclaves, present participle enclaving, simple past and past participle enclaved)

1. (transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.

References

• (group set off from a larger population by a characteristic): Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life - Page 74

by Robert Neelly Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton, Richard Madsen - 1996

Anagrams

• Valence, valence

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????kla?.v?/, /????kla?.v?/
• Hyphenation: en?cla?ve
• Rhymes: -a?v?

Noun

enclave f (plural enclaves, diminutive enclaafje n or enclavetje n)

1. enclave

Derived terms

• enclavedorp
• moslimenclave

French

Etymology

From enclaver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.klav/

Noun

enclave f (plural enclaves)

1. enclave
2. (field hockey or ice hockey) the slot

Further reading

• “enclave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• valence, Valence

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /en?kla.ve/

Noun

enclave f (plural enclavi) (Often invariant)

1. enclave

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• encrave

Noun

enclave m (plural enclaves)

1. (geography) enclave (region completely surrounded by another)
2. (geology) an intrusive rock

Spanish

Noun

enclave m (plural enclaves)

1. (politics) enclave

Verb

enclave

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of enclavar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of enclavar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of enclavar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of enclavar.