ENCLOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enclosed mean? 

• ENCLOSED (adjective)
  The adjective ENCLOSED has 1 sense:

1. closed in or surrounded or included within

  Familiarity information: ENCLOSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCLOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closed in or surrounded or included within

Context example:

the enclosed check is to cover shipping and handling

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)

 Context examples 

A volume made up of pages fastened along one edge and enclosed between protective covers.

(Book, NCI Thesaurus)

The smallest units of living structure capable of independent existence, composed of a membrane-enclosed mass of protoplasm and containing a nucleus or nucleoid.

(Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The single unit membrane of the lysosome acts as a barrier between the enzymes enclosed in the lysosome and the external substrate.

(Lysosome, NCI Thesaurus)

I have the greatest pleasure, my dear Emma, in forwarding to you the enclosed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is enclosed by a wall of two feet high, and twenty feet distance from the buildings.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The house is at present empty, but enclosed please find keys, all of which are labelled.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A muskeg berry is a bit of seed enclosed in a bit of water.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It is surrounded by three protective membranes, and is enclosed within the vertebrae.

(Malignant Spinal Cord Neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)

Viral nucleic acid enclosed by a protein capsid.

(Nucleocapsid Protein, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

An enclosed structural device designed for heating an object.

(Oven Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)