Enclose
verb
To surround something completely.
The garden was enclosed by a tall wooden fence.
verb
To place something inside an envelope along with a letter.
Please find enclosed a check for $25.
Often appears as...
- enclosed check
- enclosed document
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Formal
verb
In mathematics, to include values within a set or interval.
This interval encloses all the possible values of x.
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Academic
verb
In computing, to embed data within a code structure.
This function encloses the input data in a specific format.
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Technical
verb
To surround something completely.
The garden was enclosed by a tall wooden fence.
verb
To place something inside an envelope along with a letter.
Please find enclosed a check for $25.
Often appears as...
- enclosed check
- enclosed document
Usage tips
Formal
verb
In mathematics, to include values within a set or interval.
This interval encloses all the possible values of x.
Usage tips
Academic
verb
In computing, to embed data within a code structure.
This function encloses the input data in a specific format.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Barriers
Used to describe actual barriers built around something.
They enclosed the playground with a new metal barrier.
Pro Tip 2/2Complete Inclusion
Implies an area is completely surrounded, leaving no gaps.
A brick wall enclosed the entire yard.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Barriers
Used to describe actual barriers built around something.
They enclosed the playground with a new metal barrier.
Pro Tip 2/2Complete Inclusion
Implies an area is completely surrounded, leaving no gaps.
A brick wall enclosed the entire yard.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Barriers
Used to describe actual barriers built around something.
They enclosed the playground with a new metal barrier.
Pro Tip 2/2Complete Inclusion
Implies an area is completely surrounded, leaving no gaps.
A brick wall enclosed the entire yard.
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How Engineers Hack...
like like it only took a few seconds for him to get back and cross the distance but it would seem like an eternity I remember you told me at right right when you you got to the boat you were like oh my like my torso is above the water so now that's part Crittercam is a video tape recorder enclosed in underwater
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The game-changing...
the amniotes are the first animals with the ability to live a fully terrestrial life. But, despite their move inland, the amniotes have not abandoned their pond-dwelling upbringing. In fact, the amniotic egg brings the pond with them by enclosing the aquatic environment within its shell.
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What causes cavities? -...
Gradually, acid wears down a pathway for bacteria into the tooth's secondary layer called the dentin. Since blood vessels and nerves in our teeth are enclosed deep within, at this stage, the expanding cavity doesn't hurt. But if the damage extends beyond the dentin,
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A riddle of ice and fire...
each of which must be completely enclosed spaces. Add more or otherwise mess this up, and you’ll lose your job and your head. Where do you draw lines and place the new dragons? Pause here to figure it out for yourself. Answer in 3 Answer in 2
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The path toward...
living in poverty and that's the backdrop that we come to discuss today and see how did we meet those challenges but before I continue there was a life before and you're probably wondering who's this lady and major enclosed the
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Spotting the World's...
and you can imagine it would be very enclosed. The sounds, the noises, the smells, the dust in the air. You've got some lichens forming, You've got life even in this abandoned building. Lichen is liking the iron.
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The physics of surfing -...
This forms the waves’ characteristic curls, or jets, as they break along the shore. Sometimes, the curl might completely enclose part of the wave, forming a moving tube of water known as the barrel.
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Martina Flor: The secret...
they would open up a little window to understanding the stories enclosed in those shapes. I recognized places where tradition was important. Or I'd know when someone was trying to give me a signal,
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How Are Eggs Made? PIPE...
that done and enclosed within the membrane it travels on into the uterus when it will be given its protective armor a shell the shell is actually quite separate
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How does hibernation...
Onboard the spacecraft, the astronauts preset the timer, enclose themselves in capsules, and fall into a deep hibernation
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How Engineers Hack...
like like it only took a few seconds for him to get back and cross the distance but it would seem like an eternity I remember you told me at right right when you you got to the boat you were like oh my like my torso is above the water so now that's part Crittercam is a video tape recorder enclosed in underwater
Video examples
The game-changing...
the amniotes are the first animals with the ability to live a fully terrestrial life. But, despite their move inland, the amniotes have not abandoned their pond-dwelling upbringing. In fact, the amniotic egg brings the pond with them by enclosing the aquatic environment within its shell.
Video examples
What causes cavities? -...
Gradually, acid wears down a pathway for bacteria into the tooth's secondary layer called the dentin. Since blood vessels and nerves in our teeth are enclosed deep within, at this stage, the expanding cavity doesn't hurt. But if the damage extends beyond the dentin,
Video examples
A riddle of ice and fire...
each of which must be completely enclosed spaces. Add more or otherwise mess this up, and you’ll lose your job and your head. Where do you draw lines and place the new dragons? Pause here to figure it out for yourself. Answer in 3 Answer in 2
Video examples
The path toward...
living in poverty and that's the backdrop that we come to discuss today and see how did we meet those challenges but before I continue there was a life before and you're probably wondering who's this lady and major enclosed the
Video examples
Spotting the World's...
and you can imagine it would be very enclosed. The sounds, the noises, the smells, the dust in the air. You've got some lichens forming, You've got life even in this abandoned building. Lichen is liking the iron.
Video examples
The physics of surfing -...
This forms the waves’ characteristic curls, or jets, as they break along the shore. Sometimes, the curl might completely enclose part of the wave, forming a moving tube of water known as the barrel.
Video examples
Martina Flor: The secret...
they would open up a little window to understanding the stories enclosed in those shapes. I recognized places where tradition was important. Or I'd know when someone was trying to give me a signal,
Video examples
How Are Eggs Made? PIPE...
that done and enclosed within the membrane it travels on into the uterus when it will be given its protective armor a shell the shell is actually quite separate
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How does hibernation...
Onboard the spacecraft, the astronauts preset the timer, enclose themselves in capsules, and fall into a deep hibernation
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Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.
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Hart Crane
American Poet
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
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Marcus du Sautoy
British Mathematician
The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.
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Clifford D. Simak
American Writer
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
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Ann Cleeves
British Writer
I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.
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Peter Kropotkin
Russian Revolutionary
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American Journalist
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
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Amanda Lindhout
Canadian Journalist
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Helen Rowland
American Writer
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.
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Hart Crane
American Poet
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
Quote examples
Marcus du Sautoy
British Mathematician
The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.
Quote examples
Clifford D. Simak
American Writer
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
Quote examples
Ann Cleeves
British Writer
I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.
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Peter Kropotkin
Russian Revolutionary
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
Quote examples
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American Journalist
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
Quote examples
Amanda Lindhout
Canadian Journalist
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Quote examples
Helen Rowland
American Writer
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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