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# surround

«surround» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be all around it on every side** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (surround, surrounds, surrounded, surrounding); noun (a surround, surrounds — the edge or frame around something)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To surround something is to be all around it on every side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#m1)

2) To surround someone is to move so you are all around them, like a crowd or soldiers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#m2)

3) A surround is a border or frame around something, like a fireplace surround. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a border surrounds a shape; the perimeter is the length that surrounds it. In geography, an island is land surrounded by water. In stories, wolves surround a camp or fans surround a star. Phrases: «surrounded by», «be surrounded», «surround sound».

### examples

- Water surrounds the island on all sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x1)
- A fence surrounds the school field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x2)
- The fans surrounded the footballer for autographs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x3)
- Trees surround our house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x4)
- Draw a border to surround the picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x5)
- The wolves began to surround the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x6)
- Mountains surround the little village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x7)
- These children rush out in swarms, and surround travellers, whether on foot or in carriages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: «surrounded». Spelling: double r: s-u-r-r-o-u-n-d. «Surroundings» (plural noun) means the place around you. In maths, the length of the line that surrounds a shape is its perimeter.

### In the corpora

- [He nods hard, but he is sure it means the great Chief is surrounded by enemies with spears.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/1/)
- [Our brain can be fooled by what surrounds a shape, so measuring gives the true answer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/15/)
- [The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent of land covered by ice and surrounded by ocean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/7/)
- [Pangaea was surrounded by one giant ocean called Panthalassa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/6/)
- [Jupiter is surrounded by belts of deadly radiation, the strongest of any planet, which can damage spacecraft electronics.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surround» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surround/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.