Enclosure vs Attached - What's the difference?
As a noun enclosure
is (countable) something enclosed, ie inserted into a letter or similar package.
As a verb attached is
As an adjective attached is
in a romantic or sexual relationship.
(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- ''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
- The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
- The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure .
- The enclosure of public land is against the law.
- The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- At first, untrained horses resist enclosure .
The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .
* For more on the spelling of this word, see (m).
In a romantic or sexual relationship.
- As far as I know, he isn't attached , so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
(botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
- I'm not ready to get attached , as I want to continue sleeping around.
Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.
- In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
* (sharing two walls) detached, semiattached