Definitions for surround
səˈraʊndsur·round

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. environment, environs, surroundings, surroundverb

   the area in which something exists or lives

   "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

2. surround, environ, ring, skirt, borderverb

   extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

   "The forest surrounds my property"

3. smother, surroundverb

   envelop completely

   "smother the meat in gravy"

4. besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumventverb

   surround so as to force to give up

   "The Turks besieged Vienna"

5. wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surroundverb

   surround with a wall in order to fortify

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. surroundnoun

   Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something.

2. surroundverb

   To encircle or simultaneously extend on all sides of something.

3. surroundverb

   To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

4. Etymology: From soronder, from superundare, from super + undare.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Surroundverb

   To environ; to encompass; to enclose on all sides.

   Etymology: surronder, Fr.

   Yelling monsters that with ceaseless cry
   Surround me, as thou sawest. John Milton.

   Cloud and ever-during dark
   Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men
   Cut off. John Milton.

   Bad angels seen
   On wing under the burning cope of hell,
   ’Twixt upper, neather, and surrounding fires. John Milton.

   As the bodies that surround us diversly affect our organs, the mind is forced to receive the impressions. John Locke.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surround

   Surround sound is a technique for enriching the fidelity and depth of sound reproduction by using multiple audio channels from speakers that surround the listener (surround channels). Its first application was in movie theaters. Prior to surround sound, theater sound systems commonly had three screen channels of sound that played from three loudspeakers (left, center, and right) located in front of the audience. Surround sound adds one or more channels from loudspeakers to the side or behind the listener that are able to create the sensation of sound coming from any horizontal direction (at ground level) around the listener. The technique enhances the perception of sound spatialization by exploiting sound localization: a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance. This is achieved by using multiple discrete audio channels routed to an array of loudspeakers. Surround sound typically has a listener location (sweet spot) where the audio effects work best and presents a fixed or forward perspective of the sound field to the listener at this location. Surround sound formats vary in reproduction and recording methods, along with the number and positioning of additional channels. The most common surround sound specification, the ITU's 5.1 standard, calls for 6 speakers: Center (C), in front of the listener; Left (L) and Right (R), at angles of 60°; Left Surround (LS) and Right Surround (RS) at angles of 100–120°; and a subwoofer, whose position is not critical.

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1. surround

   Surround refers to the action or state of enclosing, encircling or being positioned all round something or someone, typically to provide protection, containment, or decoration. It could also imply forming a border or boundary around something or existing on all sides of a particular area or object.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Surroundverb

   to inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ

2. Surroundverb

   to lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city

3. Surroundverb

   to pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world

4. Surroundverb

   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

5. Surroundnoun

   a method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Surround

   Surround is the second album from Jon Bauer.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Surround

   sur-rownd′, v.t. to go round about; to encompass, environ: to cut off from communication or retreat.—n. Surround′ing, an encompassing: (pl.) things which surround, external circumstances. [O. Fr. suronder—L. superundāre, to overflow, often confused with round.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surround

   In sieges, to invest; in tactics, to outflank and cut off the means of retreating.

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'surround' in Verbs Frequency: #433

How to pronounce surround?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of surround in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of surround in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of surround in a Sentence

1. Author Unknown:

   The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

2. Zhang Xiuhong:

   We go out and search, and then all these police surround us, nobody's watching for my daughter. Nobody's doing anything. How can we have any more hope?

3. Courtesy Loni James:

   I love having the different races and religions and music and style and knowledge and background, there’s just so much to be learned when you surround yourself with people from all different areas( of the world).

4. Ali Zaidi:

   But in seriousness, you know, this is a month that really pushes you to forge community. It’s very easy when you’re in the 24/7 grind to lose a sense of the people that surround us and strengthen us. This is an opportunity to reach out to them. It’s really a month that’s oriented towards service.

5. Meghan Day:

   Hibernation and isolation can feed a depressed mood, surround yourself with friends, even if you don't feel like it. Not only are you distracting yourself from your possibly blue thoughts, but being out with others provides you with opportunities for pleasure and joy.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=surround
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Surround
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=surround
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surround
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=surround
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=surround
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html