enclosure

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Act of enclosing

Nouns

1. enclosure, containment, circumscription, confinement, imprisonment (see prison); blockade, siege; quarantine.

2. envelope, case, cartridge, receptacle, wrapper, covering, girdle; parenthesis, bracket, bookend. See region.

3. (enclosed space) pen, fold; enclave; sheepfold, paddock, pound, coop, sty, pigsty, stall, kennel, corral, net, kraal, compound; courtyard; patio, yard, etc.

4. (enclosing structure) wall; hedge, fence, pale, paling, balustrade, rail[ing], dike, ditch, fosse, moat, levee, embankment; dam. See defense.

5. (limiting structure) barrier, barricade, parapet, rampart, stockade; jail (see prison).

Verbs — enclose, confine, surround, circumscribe, contain, envelop, hedge about or in, pen in, coop up, hem in, impen, impound; fence in, wall in or up, close in, dam up, curtain off, cordon off, quarantine, blockade; confine, imprison; parenthesize, bracket.

Adjectives — enclosed, confined, etc.; shut in, walled up; enclosing, parietal, cloistered.

Quotations — Good fences make good neighbors (Robert Frost), Something there is that doesn't love a wall (Robert Frost), Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage (Richard Lovelace).

Antonyms, see exterior, space.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A space enclosed]

Syn. pen, sty, yard, jail, garden, corral, cage, asylum, pound, kennel, run, park, fenced-in field, arena, precinct, compound, plot, court, courtyard, quadrangle, close, cloister, patch, walk, aviary, mew(s), coop, cote, hutch, fold, den, cell, dungeon, vault, crawl, kraal, paddock, ring, stockade, warren, concentration camp, detention camp, pale, ghetto, prison, stadium, bowl, coliseum; see also building 1 , place 3 , room 2 .

2. [Something inserted]

Syn. information, check, money, circular, copy, questionnaire, forms, documents, printed matter.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun An area partially or entirely enclosed by walls or buildings: atrium, close, court, courtyard, quad, quadrangle, yard. See PLACE.