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surrounds

English

Noun

surrounds pl (plural only)

  1. Things bordering, adjacent to, or near something else; surroundings.
    It was an informative guide to the city and surrounds.

Synonyms

  • environs
  • hinterland

Verb

surrounds

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of surround

surrounds From the web:

  • what surrounds the nucleus
  • what surrounds the alveoli
  • what surrounds the glomerulus
  • what surrounds all cells
  • what surrounds and protects each kidney
  • what surrounds and protects the cell
  • what surrounds the heart
  • what surrounds the mouth of sea cucumbers


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)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
  3. (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

Synonyms

  • bebay
  • beleaguer
  • beset

Translations

Noun

surround (plural surrounds)

  1. (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.

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
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