INCLOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inclose mean? 

• INCLOSE (verb)
  The verb INCLOSE has 2 senses:

1. surround completely

2. place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing

  Familiarity information: INCLOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCLOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they inclose    ... he / she / it incloses   
Past simple: inclosed   
Past participle: inclosed   
-ing form: inclosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surround completely

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in

Context example:

They closed in the porch with a fence

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

border; environ; ring; skirt; surround (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)

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

hedge; hedge in (enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges)

fort; fortify (enclose by or as if by a fortification)

corral (enclose in a corral)

casket (enclose in a casket)

cordon off; rope in; rope off (divide by means of a rope)

fence; fence in (enclose with a fence)

encapsulate (enclose in a capsule or other small container)

dike; dyke (enclose with a dike)

bank (enclose with a bank)

glass; glass in (enclose with glass)

border; frame; frame in (enclose in or as if in a frame)

bury; eat up; immerse; swallow; swallow up (enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing)

case; encase; incase (enclose in, or as if in, a case)

enshrine; shrine (enclose in a shrine)

bower; embower (enclose in a bower)

wall in; wall up (enclose with a wall)

insert; tuck (fit snugly into)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in

Context example:

Insert your ticket here

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

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

plug (insert a plug into)

plug (insert as a plug)

inject; shoot (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing)

foist (insert surreptitiously or without warrant)

slip (insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly)

feed; feed in (introduce continuously)

interlard; intersperse (introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions)

cup (put into a cup)

catheterise; catheterize (insert a catheter into (a body part))

glass (put in a glass container)

inset (set or place in)

inoculate (introduce a microorganism into)

plug (replace the center of a coin with a baser metal)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

inclosure (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

 Context examples 

He inclosed a copy of it, which is here reproduced: ELSIE-PREPARE-TO-MEET-THY-GOD

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lady Hamilton ran to his assistance, but no sooner had she glanced at the paper inclosed than she burst into a shrill scream, and throwing up her hands and her eyes, she sank backwards in a swoon.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the ladies withdrew to the drawing-room after dinner, this poverty was particularly evident, for the gentlemen HAD supplied the discourse with some variety—the variety of politics, inclosing land, and breaking horses—but then it was all over; and one subject only engaged the ladies till coffee came in, which was the comparative heights of Harry Dashwood, and Lady Middleton's second son William, who were nearly of the same age.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)