surround

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It will attempt to surround the implant and expel it.

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Quick take

the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of surround gathered in one view.

noun

the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

verb

extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"

verb

envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for surround.

noun

the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

See also: environment, environs, surroundings

verb

extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"

verb

envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"

verb

surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"

See also: besiege, beleaguer, circumvent

verb

surround with a wall in order to fortify

Example sentences

It will attempt to surround the implant and expel it.

For $10/unit it seems like they could afford to at least give it an epoxy surround.

> The secret is to surround yourself with people who don't > have the same agenda as you Absolutely.

Doing YC means surrounding yourself with great people.- Every single YC partner is a genuinely lovely person.

Yet in all that time, pg and co have had and continue to have our backs 100%.- One thing I've learned in life is that who you choose to surround yourself with matters immensely.

The way I understand it is this : if an implant is nice and smooth and well integrated with it's surrounding tissue then a titanium implant is safe.

For some people, things come first in their life, and they surround themselves with people who will help them achieve those things, or ones who have already achieved them so they can bask in their glow.

Before capturing a city, surround it--at least put units in the 8 adjacent squares, and ideally units in the full "city radius" of 20 squares.

Cracking releases or moving releases from one top site to another becomes an interesting game and so too are the metagames and scene politics that surround it.

There is no paranoia, fear, or any of those weird dynamics that surround marijuana in non medicinal states -- people simply don't care.

Due to the massive lakes that surround us, we frequently get a blast of warm, wet air that causes rain, and of course that warm wet air is being pushed off the lake by a cold front, causing high winds and sub-freezing temps.

They're about the same thickness and reasonably similar shapes, and with the same "rounded rectangle with a black bezel surrounded by a silver frame" I honestly have grabbed the wrong tablet before.

Take another comment on this thread:> Once somebody is fully set in their ways it's almost impossible to change their mind without divine interventionThat's fairly blatant ageism but, more than that, it's from someone who only knows people like him- or herself that wants to surround themselves with the same.

Ageism is dumb, and I rally against it now as an adult as much as I did when I was 15.> "but I seriously haven't really heard someone over the age of 30 or so make snarky remarks about how so-and-so is such a hipster douchebag"Maybe that's because you surround yourself with people who have similar outlooks?

The entire paper is a great read, but one part that strikes me as relevant to this discussion is:While we find much of the work presently being done on elaborate interface technologies -- DataGloves, head-mounted displays, special-purpose rendering engines, and so on -- both exciting and promising, the almost mystical euphoria that currently seems to surround all this hardware is, in our opinion, both excessive and somewhat misplaced.