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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#m1)

2) An enclosure is also something put inside an envelope with a letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x1)
- Do not climb into the animal enclosure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x2)
- The farmer built an enclosure for the goats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x3)
- The enclosure is 10 metres long and 6 metres wide, so it needs 32 metres of fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x4)
- The penguin enclosure had a pool and rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x5)
- The letter came with an enclosure, a small photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x6)
- The rabbits escaped from their enclosure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x7)
- Prince Ivan walked round the enclosure, but could not see any doors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «enclosure» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enclosure/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.