Covered vs Surrounded - What's the difference?
covered | surrounded |
Overlaid with or enclosed within something.
(figuratively) prepared for, or dealt with some matter
:I think that we have covered everything that was on the agenda
:With my insurance, I am covered for earthquake damage also
:(poker) Having more money available for betting than another player.
:: John has $100 on the table, while Jill only has $75. John has Jill covered .
(cover)
(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 verbs the difference between covered and surrounded
is that covered is past tense of cover while surrounded is past tense of surround.As an adjective covered
is overlaid with or enclosed within something.covered
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*surrounded
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(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.
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(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.