Proceeded vs Surrounded - What's the difference?
proceeded | surrounded |
(proceed)
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.
To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.
To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
* John Locke
To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
* Shakespeare
To have application or effect; to operate.
* Ayliffe
To begin and carry on a legal process. (rfex)
(surround)
(label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
(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 proceeded and surrounded
is that proceeded is past tense of proceed while surrounded is past tense of surround.proceeded
English
Verb
(head)proceed
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- to proceed on a journey.
- To proceed with a story or argument.
- Light proceeds from the sun.
- he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry
- He will, after his sour fashion, tell you / What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
- This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * Not to be confused with precede. * Many of the other English verbs ultimately derived from Latin are spelled ending in "cede", so the misspelling "procede" is common.Synonyms
* progressAntonyms
* regress * recedeReferences
* *See also
* proceeds (noun)Anagrams
* English control verbssurrounded
English
Verb
(head)surround
English
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.