Delineate vs Surround - What's the difference?
delineate | surround | Related terms |
To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
To depict, represent with pictures.
To describe or depict with words or gestures.
To outline or mark out.
(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.
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Delineate is a related term of surround.
As verbs the difference between delineate and surround
is that delineate is to sketch out, draw or trace an outline while surround is (label) to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.As a noun surround is
(british) anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.delineate
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(delineat)Synonyms
* (to mark the limits or boundaries) (l), (l), (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)External links
* * ----surround
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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.
- (Fuller)
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*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.
