Enclosing
adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 That which encloses.
"And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings."
- 2 the act of enclosing something inside something else wordnet
- 3 The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
"Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings."
- 1 present participle and gerund of enclose form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds. not-comparable
Example
More examples"And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings."
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