Flanked vs Surrounded - What's the difference?

flanked | surrounded |

As verbs the difference between flanked and surrounded

is that flanked is past tense of flank while surrounded is past tense of surround.

flanked

English

Verb

(head)

(flank)

flank

English

Adjective

(-)

(nautical) Maximum (of speed). Historically faster than full'' speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack (''All ahead flank! ).

Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy) The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.

(cooking) A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.

(military) The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.

The side of something, in general senses.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII

Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth.

The outermost strip of a road.

(soccer) The wing, one side of the pitch.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=January 23 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The hosts also had Paul Robinson to thank for a string of saves, three of them coming against Jerome Thomas, who gave Michel Salgado a torrid time down the left flank .}}

That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

Synonyms

* (all senses) side * (side of formation) wing

Derived terms

* (flesh between the last rib and the hip) flank steak

Coordinate terms

* (cut of meat from the flank of an animal) fajita

Verb

(en verb)

To attack the flank(s) of something.

To defend the flank(s) of something.

To place to the side(s) of something.

* Pitt

Stately colonnades are flanked with trees.

To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side.)

surrounded

English

Verb

(head)

(surround)

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