Blanket vs Surround - What's the difference?

Blanket is a related term of surround.

As nouns the difference between blanket and surround

is that blanket is a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting while surround is (british) anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

As verbs the difference between blanket and surround

is that blanket is to cover with, or as if with, a blanket while surround is (label) to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

As an adjective blanket

is in general; covering or encompassing everything.

blanket

English

(wikipedia blanket)

Noun

(en noun)

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.

A layer of anything.

The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Derived terms

* blankie, blanky * security blanket * smallpox blanket * wet blanket

Adjective

(-)

In general; covering or encompassing everything.

They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.

a blanket ban

Verb

(en verb)

To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

* Shakespeare

I'll blanket my loins.

A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.

* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII

I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.

To traverse or complete thoroughly.

The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.

To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

* Ben Jonson

We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

surround

English

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= 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.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 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.}}

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.

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

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.

(Fuller)

Synonyms

Noun

(en noun)

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

* 1972 , 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:

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.

Derived terms

* surround sound