Shroud vs Surround - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shroud and surround

is that shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment while surround is anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

As verbs the difference between shroud and surround

is that shroud is to cover with a shroud while surround is to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

shroud

English

(wikipedia shroud)

Noun

(en noun)

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

* Sandys

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

* Shakespeare

a dead man in his shroud

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

* Byron

Jura answers through her misty shroud .

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

* Chapman

The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

* Withals

a vault, or shroud , as under a church

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.

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One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Verb

(en verb)

To cover with a shroud.

* Francis Bacon

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.

To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

* Dryden

Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.

To take shelter or harbour.

* Milton

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

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.

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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