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Surrounding vs. Context — What's the Difference?

Surrounding vs. Context — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Surrounding and Context

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Surrounding

To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
The magnetic field that surrounds the earth.

Context

The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.

Surrounding

To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication
The police surrounded the house.

Context

The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.

Surrounding

Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds
A fireplace surround.
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Context

The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.

Surrounding

The area around a thing or place
Inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.

Context

(linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.

Surrounding

Often surrounds Surroundings; environment
"It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me" (Listener).

Context

(archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.

Surrounding

A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.

Context

(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

Surrounding

Present participle of surround

Context

(logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.

Surrounding

An outlying area; area in proximity to something

Context

(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Surrounding

An environment

Context

(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

Surrounding

Which surrounds something

Context

Knit or woven together; close; firm.
The coats, without, are context and callous.

Surrounding

Inclosing; encircling.

Context

The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
According to all the light that the contexts afford.

Surrounding

An encompassing.

Context

To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.

Surrounding

The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.

Context

Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

Surrounding

Closely encircling;
Encompassing mountain ranges
The surrounding countryside

Context

The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event;
The historical context

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