enclosed

UK/ənˈkləʊzd/US/ənˈkloʊzd/

adjectiveB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,929 of 15,258leans written

Enclosed means shut in on every side. An enclosed garden, an enclosed space, please find enclosed.

Please find enclosed is the standard letter formula for something sent with it, and it survives in email where nothing is enclosed at all. In safety law a confined or enclosed space is a defined hazard, since air can go bad in one without warning.

Definitions of enclosed

1adjectiveenclosedShut in on every side.B2+
“The children played safely in an enclosed garden with high walls.”

enclosed is a state.

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enclosed in the wild

A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters.
Convent
Coaches are a special category within carriages; they are enclosed carriages with four corner posts and a fixed roof.
Carriage
The gleba is a solid mass of spores, generated within an enclosed area within the sporocarp.
Gleba
The gleba may be sticky or it may be enclosed in a case (peridiole).
Gleba
The enclosed helmet, also termed a primitive great helm or early great helm, was a type of Western European helmet of the late 12th and early 13th century.
Enclosed helmet

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