Surrounding vs Neighborhood - What's the difference?
surrounding | neighborhood |
(chiefly, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 399-402:
* 1835 , , Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes :
Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
The inhabitants of a residential area.
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
An approximate amount.
The quality of physical proximity.
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
(topology) An open set which contains the point in question.
(topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
(label) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
(topology) A set containing an open set which contains point in question.
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
As nouns the difference between surrounding and neighborhood
is that surrounding is outlaying area; area in proximity to something while neighborhood is the quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.As a verb surrounding
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective surrounding
is which surrounds something.neighborhood
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Alternative forms
* neighbourhood (UK)Noun
- ''Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
- Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood , the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
- Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood .
- He lives in my neighborhood .
- ''The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood .
- He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
- The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood .
