Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
- transitive verb To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.
- noun Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds.
- noun The area around a thing or place.
- noun Surroundings; environment.
- noun A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overflow; inundate.
- To encompass; environ; inclose on all sides, as a body of troops, surrounded by hostile forces, so as to cut off communication or retreat; invest, as a fortified place: as, to
surround a city; to surround a detachment of the enemy. - To form an inclosure round; environ; encircle: as, a wall or ditch surrounds the city.
- To make the circuit of; circumnavigate.
- Synonyms To fence in, coop up.
- To overflow.
- noun A method of hunting some animals, such as buffaloes, by surrounding them and driving them over a precipice, or into a deep ravine or other place from which they cannot escape.
- noun A cordon of hunters formed for the purpose of capturing animals by surrounding and driving them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
- transitive verb To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle.
- transitive verb obsolete To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
- transitive verb (Mil.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
- noun U.S. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
encircle orsimultaneously extend on allsides of something. - verb transitive To
enclose orconfine something on all sides so as to preventescape . - noun UK Anything, such as a
fence orborder that surrounds something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the area in which something exists or lives
- verb surround with a wall in order to fortify
- verb extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- verb surround so as to force to give up
- verb envelop completely
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only thing you surround is the kiosk at the Tea Bagger convention selling little American flags for $15 a pop that are made – ahem – in CHINA.
Think Progress » MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin By Writing ‘Cheat Sheet’ On Her Hand 2010
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This is not an issue with DVD, as most DVDs are in surround sound … but streaming video?
How Dead Is the Video Rental Business? » DVDs Worth Watching 2010
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The surround sound was not working so I complained to the manager of the theater only for him to vehemently try to convince me that the "Hulk" was NOT produced in surround sound! grock
The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 93 - Theater Disasters and The Business of Hollywood | /Film 2010
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They are what they are - eye candy which are fun to watch and sound great in surround sound, haha.
First Look: Smoke and Engines from Fast and the Furious 4 « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The entrance surround is comprised of pilasters supporting a broken arched pediment with a panel bearing the words: “What Cheer Laundry” and depicting Roger Williams meeting Native Americans.
"...one spark and the sky's on fire." thingunderthest 2008
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I believe that HD allows to broadcast sound via six channels - in surround mode.
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For no matter what you think of the long-departed Sam Kinison's humor, I think we can all agree that we don't need to hear his act in surround sound.
A Lesson Well Worth Learning, or: Vive La Difference brewfreshdaily 2006
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- Let you enjoy all you music and movies in surround sound on amy stereo speaker system or headphones; and
Review: Creative Xmod for PC and Mac — Meandering Passage 2006
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I guess since it was the only series I actually paid real money to see in surround-sound at the theatre (and not even a matinee all the time!), the Lord of the Rings trilogy must be it.
Movie Tag! Candace 2005
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I guess since it was the only series I actually paid real money to see in surround-sound at the theatre (and not even a matinee all the time!), the Lord of the Rings trilogy must be it.
Archive 2005-07-24 Candace 2005
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