enclosing
English
editVerb
editenclosing
- present participle and gerund of enclose
Noun
editenclosing (plural enclosings)
- That which encloses.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 39:10-13:
- And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.
- The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
- 1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings, page 131:
- Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings.
Adjective
editenclosing (not comparable)