surround
part of speech
verb (surround, surrounds, surrounded, surrounding); noun (a surround, surrounds — the edge or frame around something)
meaning for a pupil
1) To surround something is to be all around it on every side. tree →
2) To surround someone is to move so you are all around them, like a crowd or soldiers. tree →
3) A surround is a border or frame around something, like a fireplace surround. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, a border surrounds a shape; the perimeter is the length that surrounds it. In geography, an island is land surrounded by water. In stories, wolves surround a camp or fans surround a star. Phrases: «surrounded by», «be surrounded», «surround sound».
examples
- Water surrounds the island on all sides. tree →
- A fence surrounds the school field. tree →
- The fans surrounded the footballer for autographs. tree →
- Trees surround our house. tree →
- Draw a border to surround the picture. tree →
- The wolves began to surround the campfire. tree →
- Mountains surround the little village. tree →
- These children rush out in swarms, and surround travellers, whether on foot or in carriages. tree →
note
Regular verb: «surrounded». Spelling: double r: s-u-r-r-o-u-n-d. «Surroundings» (plural noun) means the place around you. In maths, the length of the line that surrounds a shape is its perimeter.
In the corpora
- He nods hard, but he is sure it means the great Chief is surrounded by enemies with spears.
- Our brain can be fooled by what surrounds a shape, so measuring gives the true answer.
- The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent of land covered by ice and surrounded by ocean.
- Pangaea was surrounded by one giant ocean called Panthalassa.
- Jupiter is surrounded by belts of deadly radiation, the strongest of any planet, which can damage spacecraft electronics.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «surround» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.