Surround vs Context - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between surround and context

is that surround is (label) to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions while context is (obsolete) to knit or bind together; to unite closely.

As nouns the difference between surround and context

is that surround is (british) anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something while context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.

As an adjective context is

(obsolete) knit or woven together; close; firm.

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

context

English

Noun

(en noun)

The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.

In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.}}

(senseid) (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.

(archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.

(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

Antonyms

Derived terms

() * context-dependent * context-free * context-sensitive * in context, compare in isolation * keyword in context, KWIC * keyword out of context, KWOC * out of context * take out of context

Quotations

* (English Citations of "context")

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

(Feltham)

* R. Junius

The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

* Derham

The coats, without, are context and callous.

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