Enclosure vs. Paddock

(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

Example: ‘There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.’;

(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

Example: ‘The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.’;

(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

Example: ‘He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.’; ‘The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.’; ‘The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure.’;

(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

Example: ‘The enclosure of public land is against the law.’; ‘The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.’; ‘At first, untrained horses resist enclosure.’;

The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

Example: ‘Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.’;

(religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

artifact consisting of a space that has been enclosed for some purpose

the act of enclosing something inside something else

a naturally enclosed space

something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter

'Enclosure' or 'Inclosure' is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of or enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their ancient rights of access and privilege. Agreements to enclose land could be either through a or process.

Example: ‘waste’; ‘common land’; ‘formal’; ‘informal’;

A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses.

A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle.

An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.

Land, fenced or otherwise delimited, which is most often part of a sheep or cattle property.

(motor racing) An area at circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.

The playing field.

A frog or toad. Cold as a paddock.

(transitive) To provide with a paddock.

(transitive) To keep in, or place in, a paddock.

A paddock is a small enclosure for horses. In the United Kingdom, this term also applies to a field for a general automobile racing competition, particularly Formula 1.