ENCASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encase mean? 

• ENCASE (verb)
  The verb ENCASE has 1 sense:

1. enclose in, or as if in, a case

  Familiarity information: ENCASE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCASE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they encase    ... he / she / it encases   
Past simple: encased   
Past participle: encased   
-ing form: encasing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose in, or as if in, a case

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

case; encase; incase

Context example:

my feet were encased in mud

Hypernyms (to "encase" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "encase"):

pack (arrange in a container)

box; package (put into a box)

sack (put in a sack)

crate (put into a crate; as for protection)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They encase the goods

Derivation:

encasement (the act of enclosing something in a case)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by the presence of a transparent membrane encasing the newborn.

(Lamellar Ichthyosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Axons of neurons encased in a lipoproteinaceous material called myelin.

(Myelinated Nerve Fiber, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The delicate, highly vascular, innermost membrane encasing the brain and spinal cord.

(Pia Mater, NCI Thesaurus)

Finely cut tobacco encased in a wrapper of thin paper and rolled for smoking.

(Cigarette, NCI Thesaurus)

For three weeks, a titanium-encased hydrophone recorded ambient noise from the ocean floor at a depth of more than 36,000 feet, or 7 miles, in the Challenger Deep trough in the Mariana Trench near Micronesia.

(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)

Flybys from NASA's Voyager and Galileo spacecraft have led scientists to conclude that Europa is covered by a layer of salty liquid water encased in an icy shell.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

Tiny filaments and tubes formed by bacteria that lived on iron were found encased in quartz layers in the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB), Quebec, Canada.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Use a protective cover that encases mattresses and box springs.

(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)

IceCube is an array of 5,160 optical sensors, each roughly two feet in diameter, deeply encased within a cubic kilometer of very clear Antarctic ice near NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)

Now, five months later, the post office delivered my letter to her—all chewed up by the machinery as I had suspected, it was encased in a special post office envelope. (The post office is ruled by Mercury.) You simply can’t make this up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)