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ENCLOSED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closed in or surrounded or included within

Example:

the enclosed check is to cover shipping and handling

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

basined (enclosed in a basin)

besieged (surrounded by hostile forces)

boxed; boxed-in; boxed in (enclosed in or as if in a box)

capsulate; capsulated (used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule)

clathrate (designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another)

closed; closed in (blocked against entry)

coarctate ((of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case)

embedded (enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass)

fencelike (resembling a fence)

included (enclosed in the same envelope or package)

involved (enveloped)

self-enclosed (of self-imposed enclosure or confinement)

encircled; surrounded (confined on all sides)

Antonym:

unenclosed (not closed in our surrounded or included)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb enclose

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 Context examples: 

It consists of a CAPSID plus enclosed nucleic acid.

(Nucleocapsid Protein, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any structures that are enclosed within nucleus are considered nuclear structure, including any macromolecular structures.

(Nuclear Structure, NCI Thesaurus)

Minute protoplasmic masses that make up organized tissue, consisting of a nucleus which is surrounded by protoplasm which contains the various organelles and is enclosed in the cell or plasma membrane.

(Murine Cell Types, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A functional area or structure in a cell that is not enclosed in a membrane.

(Nonmembranous Cytoplasmic Organelle, NCI Thesaurus)

Some money was enclosed in this letter also.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A family of non-enveloped, spherical-shaped, capsid-enclosed viruses.

(Astroviridae, NCI Thesaurus)

The whole building enclosed a large court; and two sides of the quadrangle, rich in Gothic ornaments, stood forward for admiration.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have enclosed with this a rough chart of our journey, which may have the effect of making the account rather easier to understand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any part of a device that resembles an enclosed tube; a cylindrical container for the storage of gases and fluids.

(Cylinder Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)