Definition of "enclose" []

• To surround on all sides; close in. (verb-transitive)
• To fence in so as to prevent common use: enclosed the pasture. (verb-transitive)
• To contain, especially so as to envelop or shelter: "Every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret” ( Charles Dickens). (verb-transitive)
• To insert into the same envelope or package: enclose a check with the order. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To search for a specific phrase enclose that phrase in quotes."
• "To search for a whole phrase enclose the search text in quote marks ""."
• "That is, I thought that the last for must "enclose" the ones above it, creating a mess of lists inside of lists inside of lists."