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surround

Chiefly US
a. a method of capturing wild beasts by encircling the area in which they are believed to be
b. the area so encircled
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Surround

An encircling border or decorative frame around a door, window or other opening.
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surround

A decorative element or structure around a doorway, fireplace, or window; for example, see arch surround, banded surround, door surround, fireplace surround, Gibbs surround, window surround.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The P-TGR time is delayed when the lifting line is surrounded by the volume.
Surrounded by two of the city's best hotels, Cintermex has an 18,320 square-meter exposition area.
This is work that demands of its spaces a new kind of unity, one that, at Dia:Beacon, goes beyond the original expectations of the artists to construct at once a site for an object that is surrounded and a space that surrounds.
These businesses may be in formerly rural areas that are now surrounded by subdivisions with $600,000 homes, or they may be in older central city neighborhoods where factories have shut down and loft apartments and town homes have moved in.
A 20-acre woodland surrounded by fields is not likely to attract tanagers.
Surrounded by cowering townsmen, he was left to face the gun-slinging town bullies all by himself.
However, not every home is surrounded by property where the private boundaries are readily apparent.
But look at the map on page 17 and you'll notice that the Arctic Ocean is surrounded by familiar continents: Asia, Europe, and North America.
Given the amount of attention and discussions that surrounded the May auction, the disclosures made by Salomon during the course of the Friday, August 9 telephone call were particularly unsettling, especially as it pertained to top management's knowledge since late April of the unauthorized customer bid in the February auction.
Fluff is contained in an inner compartment surrounded by an outer one containing virgin pellets.
"Surrounded by such a varied assortment of dynamic interactions, it should not be surprising that very large rogue waves could appear from time to time," Liu and his colleagues note.
The finials were made up of a stainless steel framework surrounded by a decorative fiberglass shell.
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