different between surround vs umbecast
surround
English
Etymology
From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superund?, from super + und? (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s???a?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
- Hyphenation: sur?round
Verb
surround (third-person singular simple present surrounds, present participle surrounding, simple past and past participle surrounded)
- (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230c.
- and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230c.
- (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
- 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine
- the body of that worthy patriarch […] should steal into that country in a clandestine way, and privately enter in at the postern door; rather let it solemnly surround the country
- 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine
Synonyms
- bebay
- beleaguer
- beset
Translations
Noun
surround (plural surrounds)
- (Britain) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
- 1972, Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File, Viking, SBN 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:
- He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
- It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.
- 1972, Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File, Viking, SBN 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:
Derived terms
- surround sound
surround From the web:
- what surrounds the nucleus
- what surrounds all cells
- what surrounds the cell
- what surrounds the nucleus of an atom
- what surrounds the alveoli
- what surrounds and protects the cell
- what surrounds the heart
- what surrounds the cell membrane
umbecast
English
Etymology
From Middle English umbecasten, equivalent to umbe- +? cast or um- +? becast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mb??kæst/, /??mb??k??st/
Verb
umbecast (third-person singular simple present umbecasts, present participle umbecasting, simple past and past participle umbecast)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cast about; make a circuit; travel around (a place).
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To consider, ponder.
- To hunt, search for the spoor, explore, seek, sniff around.
- To surround, encircle, beset; umbeset, circle around.
- To bind, tie up.
- To cast a shadow, cover with a shadow, shade
References
umbecast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
umbecast From the web:
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