(n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.
(v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(2) Commanders in the besieged Libyan rebel enclave of Misrata have complained that Nato has ignored requests for air support during a week of heavy attacks by pro-Gaddafi forces.
(3) Among the most serious charges he faced involved responsibility for the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.
(4) Putin's call on Sunday for the regularisation of the enclave's status would, paradoxically, put human rights on a more stable footing.
(5) The bomb hit a cultural centre in the small, predominantly Kurdish town, where hundreds of members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations had gathered for a press briefing before a visit to the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Kobani to help with the reconstruction of the destroyed town.
(6) The latest tunnel was found during an Israeli military operation 100 metres into the Gaza side of the border in the Palestinian coastal enclave’s south.
(7) Nor, incidentally, is thigh-gap obsession new, it's just that it has only recently transferred over from the myopic enclave of the fashion world.
(8) Chibok is an enclave of mainly Christian families in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.
(9) The son of a railway worker, Aliev was born in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani enclave in Armenia.
(10) "All fingerprint information is encrypted and stored securely in the Secure Enclave inside the A7 chip on the iPhone 5s," Apple said in a statement.
(11) Srebrenica remains a form of enclave, a Bosnian Muslim-governed island in the Serb half of Bosnia, whose strongman leader, Milorad Dodik, plays down the crimes committed and regularly calls for the breakup of Bosnia-Herzegovina .
(12) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(13) It was parked 100 metres or so away from the small one-roomed, one storey brick home Singh shared with his brother, who remains on trial, in the slum neighbourhood of Ravi Das colony, an enclave of poverty in otherwise relatively wealthy south Delhi.
(14) The US – which has repeatedly called on its Nato ally Turkey to provide more than humanitarian support to the Syrian Kurdish enclave – welcomed the peshmerga deployment, calling it a “step to degrade and ultimately defeat” Isis.
(15) This is the case with the enclavement and metatarsal osteotomies such as the Watermann procedure (25, 26).
(16) One 2007 NYPD report, titled "Radicalization in the West: the Homegrown Threat", stated that "enclaves of ethnic populations that are largely Muslim often serve as 'ideological sanctuaries' for the seeds of radical thought".
(17) In a speech prepared for delivery at a British thinktank, Jindal said some immigrants are seeking “to colonise western countries, because setting up your own enclave and demanding recognition of a no-go zone are exactly that”.
(18) Occasionally, Sting sings in the sort of broad Newcastle accent he has never revealed before, the one he has previously felt placed him back in the small terraced street he grew up in, a place he once described as an "enclave of banality".
(19) She’s a moderator of the ShitRedditSays subreddit, known as SRS, which began as a collection of all the worst quotes of Reddit and has evolved into a sort of enclave within the site for people who have deep concerns about the main community.
(20) This study compares modifications of Regnauld's enclavement procedure, the in situ "hat-shaped" and in situ "inverted" osteochondral graft.
Entity
Definition:
(n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
Example Sentences:
(1) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(2) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
(3) Epidermolytic PPK is a well delineated autosomal dominant entity, but no recessive form is known.
(4) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
(5) Pancreatic ascites is a distinct clinical entity which should be differentiated from cirrhotic, tuberculous or malignant ascites.
(6) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
(7) The recent identification among non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphomas of a high-grade malignancy entity of possible thymic origin and defined as lymphoblastic convoluted-cell lymphoma allowed the morphologic and radiological diagnosis of nine cases of this disease.
(8) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
(9) This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the majority of deaths attributed to presenile dementia and the majority of deaths from senile dementia are the result of the same disease entity.
(10) This condition is a clearly defined radiological and clinical entity.
(11) On radiographs, this entity usually presented as clusters of 1- to 3-mm plaques raised above the smooth and featureless duodenal mucosa; this was seen in 17 (68%) of 25 patients.
(12) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
(13) The literature on this uncommon syndrome was reviewed and it was found that there are an open prevalence of this entity in children younger than 15 years, as well as severe respiratory complications in affected patients.
(14) Autism is a heterogeneous disease entity containing different clinical subgroups, which do not manifest similar radiologic pictures.
(15) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
(16) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(17) Data in the literature reveal that two distinct entities do not exist, but that there is instead a continuous transition from low to normal values.
(18) Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a distinct clinical entity, with ophthalmic involvement in 10% of patients.
(19) The histological examination of the biopsies taken during colonoscopy differentiated less clearly between these two entities than the macroscopic judgement by the endoscopist.
(20) The different entity of reversibility of bronchial obstruction is due to the various mechanisms intervening in different patients.