Surround

Definition: Surround

Surround

Noun

1. The area in which something exists or lives: "the country--the flat agricultural surround".

Verb

1. Be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village".

2. Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property".

3. Envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy".

4. Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna".

5. Surround with a wall in order to fortify.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "surround" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Physics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Surround

Circumjacence

Verb: lie around; adVerb: surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in; (circumscribe).

Circumscription

Verb: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; (restrain); hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral.

Crosswords: Surround

I only surround myself with people I find intellectually stimulating. (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.)

It had surround sound. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

What you've said, Clouseau, qualifies you as the greatest prophet since Custer said he was going to surround all those Indians! (A Shot in the Dark; writing credit: Marcel Achard; William Peter Blatty)

Nope, need to know how to surround a bitch with stability (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Baby you surround me (Amazed; performing artist: LONESTAR)

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you ("Downtown"; performing artist: Petula Clark)

Will the arms of hope surround me? (Until I Find You Again; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Any sound of me again it's time away surround around a friend (FALLS APART; performing artist: Sugar Ray)

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Books

• 5.1 Channel Surround Sound: Up and Running (reference)

• Angels Surround Us: The Truth About Angels and Fallen Angels (reference)

• Fabulous Fireplace Surround : Woodworking Plan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Let Peace Surround You (reference)

• Surround Sound Opportunities [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Surround Professional (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• John McEuen & Jimmy Ibbotson - Nitty Gritty Surround (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Brass Surround (reference)

• Surround Yourself in Classics, Vol.1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Black Surround System (reference)

• Xbox 2D Surround System (reference)

• Apex HT 100W Home Theater with DVD and Surround Sound Speaker System (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cuisinart CPT-35 Heat Surround Electronic Toaster, White (reference)

• Dr Scholl's DR4055 Surround Spa (reference)

• Factory Reconditioned Cuisinart CPT-30FR Heat Surround Bagel Toaster (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Iridescent clouds surround the sun. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A heron sits on the dock alongside the water. Numerous species of herons live and roost in the waters that surround Tampa Bay. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Shooting the old males; spearing the surround; the drive Drawing by H. W. Elliott, 1872. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Catapults a Curtiss SO3C "Seamew" floatplane, during her shakedown period, circa October 1943. Note the plane's national insignia, with the red surround briefly used in mid-1943. Credit: NAVY.

Arched surround framing mural over doorway with fasciaed architrave. Partial sketch elevation study. Credit: Library of Congress.

Unidentified door and portal with elaborately carved surround. Credit: Library of Congress.

Church of Saint John Chrysostome in Korovniki (1649-54), east facade, decorative ceramic window surround, Yaroslavl', Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Peasants in Slav costume surround old man looking at girl. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crowds surround the giant pig of "fortune/wealth" while a few people scramble over boulders to reach temple of fame] / Winsor McCay. Credit: Library of Congress.

Desert mountains surround Escalante, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe. (reference)

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When he passed through a village the ragged little youngsters would run after him with joy, and surround him like a swarm of flies.

Some tubes surround thenselves with psycho mates imagining that this makes them strong.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Instead, most tumors are caused by out-of-control growth among cells that surround and support neurons. (references)

Even more numerous are the glial cells (such as astrocytes), which surround, support, and nourish neurons. (references)

Astrocytes, large star-shaped glial cells, regulate the composition of the fluids that surround nerve cells. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

With virtually defenseless borders, Belgium has traditionally sought to avoid domination by the more powerful nations which surround it through a policy of mediation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "surround": surround channel ♦ surround oneself ♦ surround speakers ♦ surround with a wire fence ♦ surround with smoke. Additional references.

Beginning with "surround": surround-sound.

Ending with "surround": centre-surround, fire-surround, label-surround, pool-surround.

Albanian

rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, wreathe), përqarkoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, swaddle, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏حاشية (annotation, attendance, bodyguard, border, cortege, edge, edging, entourage, footnote, margin, note, postscript, rim, selvage, suite), ‏حاش (border), ‏طوق (band, be hemmed in, belt, besiege, cincture, circle, circumvent, clip, collar, compass, corral, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entrench, envelop, fret, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, hoop, impale, inclose, include, invest, outflank, ring, round, strap, take off, zone), ‏إحاطة (besetment, framing, surrounding). (various references)

Bulgarian 

окръжавам (encircle, hedge, orb), обсаждам (beset, besiege, invest, lay siege to, siege), обкръжавам (beleaguer, beset, circle, embosom, encircle, encompass, engird, envelop, environ, hoop, invest, rabble, rim, ring), обграждам (circumvent, encircle, enclose), заобикалям (beat, begird, beset, bridge, bypass, circumambulate, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, double, elude, encircle, environ, evade, get round, gird, girdle, leapfrog, make a detour, pass round, round, short circuit, sidestep, skirt, stretch, work round). (various references)

Chinese 

圍住 (gird), 包圍 (encircle), 抱 (cherish, familiar, to approach, to carry, to hold, to hug or embrace), 围拢 (surrounded, surrounding). (various references)

Czech

orámování, obstoupit, obruba (border, frame, hem, list, purl, rim, ring, skirt), obklopit (beset, cluster round, encompass, engird, envelop, environ, hem in, ring), obklíèit (beset, encircle, hem in), obehnat (enclose). (various references)

Danish

omgive (encompass). (various references)

Dutch

omringen, omgeven, insluiten (imply, include, lock up, put away, shut up, stow). (various references)

Esperanto

ĉirkaŭi. (various references)

Farsi 

فراگرفتن (Absorb, Comprehend, Engulf, Envelop, Form, Learn, Lick, Suffuse), محاصره کردن (Blockade, Encompass, Gird, Siege), احاطه شدن , احاطه (Environment, Siege). (various references)

Finnish

surround-äänentoisto, vertailupinnan ympäristö. (various references)

French

entourer. (various references)

German

umzingeln (encircle), umringen (gather around, gird, throng around), umgeben (beleaguer, encircle, enclose, encompass, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, to enclose, to encompass, to environ, to surround). (various references)

Greek 

περικυκλώνω (circle, close in on, compass, encircle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעקוף (by pass, bypass, detour, evade, go round), לעטור (crown, encircle, encompass), לאפוף (compass, encircle, shroud, wreathe), לכתר (besiege, encircle, engirdle, girdle), ל�"קיף (circuit, embrace, encircle, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, pale, ring, round, span, take in), לסוב (encircle, go round, turn). (various references)

Hungarian

körülvesz (beset, blockade, come round, encompass, engirdle, environ, gird, girdle, Girt, lock in, to belt, to beset, to circle, to close round, to compass, to encircle, to encompass, to environ, to fence, to gird, to skirt, to surround), bekerít (encompass, fence in, hunt down, mure, to circumvent, to close in, to encircle, to enclose, to encompass, to fence, to fence in, to gird, to hedge in, to hem in, to hunt down, to lay down, to rail). (various references)

Indonesian

mengepung (beset, besiege, meb, restrain), mengelilingi (engirdle, environ, gird). (various references)

Italian

circondare (beset, besiege, circle, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, gird, inclose, ring, shroud, surround oneself, troop round, wind). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

サ� ライ債 (salad, salad bar, salad bowl, salad dressing, salad oil, samovar, samurai loan). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

サラウンド . (various references)

Korean 

포위하십시�" (Circumvent, Encompass, Envelop). (various references)

Manx

cruinnaghey mygeayrt (beleaguer, encircle, encirclement). (various references)

Pig Latin

urroundsay

Portuguese

rodear (begird, cant, circle, circumvent, detour, embay, embosom, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, go around, inclose, lock in, mob, outflank, outfox, rim, ring, ring up, shut in, wreathe), circundar (belt, circle, circuit, compass, rail, ring, ring up), cercar (bar up, barrier in, beleaguer, besiege, cincture, close, compass, coop, corral, embosom, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, hedge, hurdle, impound, inclose, ring, ring up). (various references)

Romanian

înconjura (beset, besiege, by pass, circumambulate, close, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, ensphere, environ, flank, gird, girdle, go, go round, hem, hoop, pale, parclose, rim, round, shut in, wreathe). (various references)

Russian 

окружать (begird, beset, close round, cluster around, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, envelop, environ, fence about, hem, inclose, round up, surrounds). (various references)

Scottish

cuartaich (compass). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opkoliti (begird, beleaguer, besiege, hoop, invest, ring), okružiti (band, circularize, compass, embay, encircle, environ, ingulf), ograditi (enclose, fence in, hedge, partition off). (various references)

Spanish

rodear (circle, circuit, encircle, enclose, encompass, inclose, wrap), circundar (circle, circuit, enclose, encompass, enfold, environ, include). (various references)

Swedish

omgiva (begird, circle, compass, embed, embrace, encase, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, imbed, incase, inclose, wreathe), omringa (circumvent, close in, encircle, encompass, gird, hem, pale), omge (begird, circle, compass, embed, embrace, encase, encircle, encircled, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, imbed, incase, inclose, wreathe). (various references)

Turkish

sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), sürgün avı (battue, beat, blood sports), kuşatmak (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, envelop, environ, equip, gird, girdle, Girt, girth, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, hem in, inclose, invest, lay siege to, ring, shut in, zone), kuşatma (blockade, circumscription, encirclement, enclosure, envelopment, investment, siege, surrounding), etrafını sarmak (beleaguer, environ, ring, ring in, round, twine about, twine around), etrafını çevirmek (begird, encircle, enclave, enclose, encompass, hedge, hedge in, hedge round, inclose), şöminenin etrafındaki dekorlar, çevrelemek (begird, cincture, circle, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, inclose, orb, ring, ring in, swathe, twine about, twine around, wreathe), çevreleme (enclosure), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone), çevirme (assembly, conversion, enclosure, inclosure, rotation, spin, translation, turning, twirl). (various references)

Turkmen 

egelenmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

оточувати (bank, beleaguer, beset, besiege, box, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, girth, hang about, hem about, hem in, inclose, mob, palisade, ring, skirt, zone), оточення (ambience, ambit, circumscription, encirclement, entourage, environs, milieu, setting), обступати, обрамлення (framing), облога (besiegement, siege). (various references)

Welsh

cylchynu (encompass), cwmpasu (round, wind), amgylchynu (beset), amgylchu (encircle). (various references)

accincta, accinctaeque, accincti, accinctisque, accinctos, accinctum, accinctus, accinctusque, accingatur, accinge, accingens, accingent, accingentes, accingentur, accingere, accingetur, accingimini, accingit, accingite, accinxerunt, accinxi, accinxisti, accinxit, amici, amicietur, amicis, amicitur, amicta, amicti, amictos, amictu, amictum, amictus, amplectens, amplectentem, amplectere, amplector, amplexus, circui, circuibam, circuibant, circuibat, circuibatque, circuibit, circuibitis, circuibo, circuibunt, circuierunt, circuirent, circuit, circuite, circuiti, circuitu, circuitum, circuitus, circuivi, circuivimus, circuivit, circum, circumcinxit, circumda, circumdabat, circumdabis, circumdabisque, circumdabit, circumdabo, circumdabor, circumdabunt, circumdamus, circumdans, circumdant, circumdantes, circumdantibus, circumdantis, circumdantium, circumdaretur, circumdari, circumdat, circumdata, circumdate, circumdati, circumdatis, circumdato, circumdatur, circumdatus, circumdederant, circumdederat, circumdederis, circumdederunt, circumdedi, circumdedissent, circumdedisti, circumdedit, circumdeditque, circumdem, circumdent, circumdet, circumeam, circumeant, circumeunt, circumeuntes, circumeuntesque, circumeuntibus, circumfusa, circumfusum, circumibant, circumibat, circumibunt, circumiens, circumierat, circumierunt, circumieruntque, circumiet, circumietur, circumiit, circumire, circumirent, circumite, circumivimus, circumligata, circumligatum, circumplexi, circumsedebant, circumsepsit, circumseptae, circumseptam, circumseptum, circumstabant, circumstans, circumstante, circumstantes, circumstantibus, circumstarent, circumstat, circumsteterunt, circumvenio, coerceo, contenta, contenti, contentus, contine, contineant, continebantur, continebat, continebis, continebit, continebunt, continendi, continens, continent, continentem, continentes, continentia, continentis, continentur, contineo, continere, continerent, contineret, continet, continetis, continuerit, continuerunt, continuimus, continuisti, continuit, convallem, convalles, impedio, includo, investire, percontinuit, praecincti, praecinctum, praecinge, praecingere, praecinget, praecingit, praecingite, praecinxisti, praecinxit, redimi, redimio, redimit, redimitur, succincti, succinctus, succinxit, super, vallabat, vallabit, vallabitis, vallasti, vallata, vallatae, vallatus, vallaverunt, vallavit, vallem, valles, vallo. (various references)

superundare. (various references)

began, bewyrcan. (various references)

soronder. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "surround": surrounded, surrounding, surroundings, surrounds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Surround" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soround, sorround, suround, surrownd. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: rounds.

-3 letters: dorrs, durns, duros, durrs, nodus, nurds, round, sound, sudor.

-4 letters: dons, dorr, dors, dour, duns, duos, durn, duro, durr, nods, nous, nurd, onus, ouds, ours, rods, runs, sord, sorn, sour, surd, udos, undo, urds, urns, urus.

-5 letters: don, dor, dos, dun, duo, nod, nor, nos, nus, ods, ons, ors, oud, our, rod.

+1 letter: runrounds, surrounds.

+2 letters: runarounds, surrounded.

+3 letters: groundburst, surrounding, turnarounds.

+4 letters: groundbursts, surroundings, undergrounds.

+5 letters: murderousness, nonstructured, underexposure.