enclosure

«enclosure» in Mova's school dictionary: an area with a fence or wall all round it, often to keep… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an enclosure, enclosures)

meaning for a pupil

1) An enclosure is an area with a fence or wall all round it, often to keep animals in. tree →

2) An enclosure is also something put inside an envelope with a letter. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life zoos, farms and wildlife parks keep animals in enclosures; in maths, finding the fence (perimeter) and space (area) of an enclosure is a common problem. Phrases: «the lion enclosure», «a fenced enclosure», «inside the enclosure».

examples

• The giraffes live in a large enclosure. tree →
• Do not climb into the animal enclosure. tree →
• The farmer built an enclosure for the goats. tree →
• The enclosure is 10 metres long and 6 metres wide, so it needs 32 metres of fence. tree →
• The penguin enclosure had a pool and rocks. tree →
• The letter came with an enclosure, a small photo. tree →
• The rabbits escaped from their enclosure. tree →
• Prince Ivan walked round the enclosure, but could not see any doors. tree →

note

Countable. Verb: «enclose» (to put a fence round, or to put inside an envelope). In maths, the fence round an enclosure is its perimeter (add all sides); the ground inside is its area (length times width for a rectangle). Safety: never climb into an animal enclosure.

In the corpora

• Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «enclosure» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.