Definition of Encased

1. Adjective. Covered or protected with or as if with a case. "Products encased in leatherette"

Exact synonyms: Cased, Incased
Similar to: Sheathed

Definition of Encased

1. Verb. (past of encase) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Encased

1. encase [v] - See also: encase

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encased

encapsuled
encapsules
encapsuling
encapture
encaptured
encaptures
encapturing
encarditis
encarnalize
encarnalized
encarnalizes
encarnalizing
encarpus
encarpuses
encase
encased (current term)
encases
encash
encashable
encashed
encashes
encashing
encashment
encashments
encasing
encatarrhaphy
encauma
encaustic

Literary usage of Encased

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Structural Steel Columns encased in Concrete.— The Joint Committee makes no recommendation as to the design of a steel column encased in concrete. ..."

2. Catalogue and Handbook of Electrical Wires and Cables by American Steel & Wire Co (1910)
"Lead encased Wires and Cables p.1* Multiple Conductor Cables 148 Lead Sheaths 148-158 Rubber Insulated Lead encased Cables . . 150 Paper Insulated Lead ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Terra-cotta, Etc. by Charles Thomas Davis (1884)
"122-4 and B are perspective views of encased iron columns, ... The X-shaped column is encased with a solid tile, a sectoral air space being secured between ..."

4. The Bookman (1903)
"... a loose velvet jacket hanging in folds from his broad shoulders, his feet encased in elaborately patterned yellow Turkish slippers— which led him, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... lift the water to a height from which in falling it drives the water wheel. runner. The hydraulic turbine is usually encased or submerged in a flume, ..."

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