Amid vs Surrounded - What's the difference?
amid | surrounded |
Surrounded by; in the middle of; in the center of.
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(surround)
(label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
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(label) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
(British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
* 1972 , 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:
As a noun amid
is amide.As a verb surrounded is
(surround).amid
English
Alternative forms
*Preposition
(English prepositions)citation, page= , passage=Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.}}
Synonyms
* amongst * amongSee also
* amidstAnagrams
* ----surrounded
English
Verb
(head)surround
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Verb
(en verb)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
- and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
- (Fuller)
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- 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.
