Surround vs Hedge - What's the difference?

Surround is a related term of hedge.

As verbs the difference between surround and hedge

is that surround is (label) to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions while hedge is to enclose with a hedge or hedges.

As nouns the difference between surround and hedge

is that surround is (british) anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something while hedge is a thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

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

hedge

English

Noun

(wikipedia hedge) (en noun)

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge , little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.

A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

(lb) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

*, II.2:

*:Attalus made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge -harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.

*1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p.639:

*:He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge -tavern near Aldersgate.

*{{quote-book, 1899, (Henry Rider Haggard), title= A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page=222

, passage=This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,

Derived terms

* hedge fund * hedgehog * hedgerow * hedgy

Verb

(hedg)

To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

to hedge a field or garden

To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.

* Bible, Hos. ii. 6

I will hedge up thy way with thorns.

* Milton

Lollius Urbius to hedge out incursions from the north.

(finance) To offset the risk associated with.

To avoid verbal commitment.

He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.

To construct or repair a hedge.

(finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.

Derived terms

* hedge one's bets * hedgy