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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