What's the difference between accosted and surrounded?

Accosted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Accost
  • (a.) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, is accosted by a Femen activist in Hanover as the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, looks on.
  • (2) #ocetisakowincamp #nodapl A photo posted by Colin McCarthy (@colinnnnn) on Nov 12, 2016 at 10:34am PST The man, identified as Richard Leingang by the Morton County sheriff’s office, was driving on County Road 82 when he was “stopped and accosted by protesters”, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
  • (3) Around the time we were filming the second series of CTM, I attended a midwifery conference and was accosted by a midwifery admissions tutor who told me in mock accusation that I was making her life extremely difficult; her midwifery course had 16 places, and that year she had almost 1,000 applicants.
  • (4) Morrissey made his first TV appearance in a period drama Stumbling accidentally on to the Coronation Street set as a teenager, Morrissey found himself accosted by a woman bearing a bundle of scripts.
  • (5) Apparently so – but with social media in meltdown at the prospect of Peter Dutton’s black-garbed men accosting strangers and demanding their papers, the under-the-clocks press conference quickly descended into predictable chaos.
  • (6) As we walk near his home – Moore greeting local business owners and passersby like old friends, or posing for pictures with strangers who accost him, street art by Shepard Fairey and D*Face on every other wall – it feels like hipster heaven: the wide streets and unbroken blue sky a Californian antidote to the claustrophobic and hypercompetitive buzz-chasing of east London or Brooklyn.
  • (7) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
  • (8) This, in my view, is a much graver breach of BBC guidelines than giving unchallenged airtime to one political party but not others, as the bosses are the people who possess real power – those, in other words, whom the BBC has the greatest duty to accost.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a heartbreaking scene in which the wonderfully plump Sara, Emma's six-year-old sister, is accosted by a (female) lifeguard who asks where her bikini top is: "She's on her way to becoming a woman, she should be covered."
  • (10) A week later, police accosted a friend of mine as she was leaving a dinner.
  • (11) Photo: Steve Ullathorne Rhys Darby: The chap from the rural working men's club who accosted me in the toilets after a gig with the line, "How many people have told you you're funny?
  • (12) In the pre-dawn hours of June 18, 1989, four men accosted and fatally shot Dana Feitler, a University of Chicago business school student, in her posh Gold Coast neighborhood.
  • (13) In her intense refutations of my casual comments about cyclists, for example (I am not a cyclist and have just nearly been run over by one; she was chair of the all-party cycling group), I can still hear the earnest young campaigner who once accosted a graffiti artist and lectured him about his social responsibility.
  • (14) After being accosted on the stairs by other residents, she was too frightened to use the communal kitchen to heat her daughter’s milk or her own food.
  • (15) When he was accosted by a security guard, Jackson said: “I just needed another jacket, man.” A few months later Jackson was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Angola prison in Louisiana.
  • (16) They accosted a steward almost crossly, demanding: "Is this free ?"
  • (17) Another woman – small and dark-haired – was the one who accosted the assailant first."
  • (18) Helal Raman, a local Labour activist who had appeared in the Panorama programme, claimed he had been accosted by one of Rahman's supporters as they filed past the body of a recently deceased mutual friend at a mosque.
  • (19) Subsequently, another tabloid discovered Paddick's then partner was on a particular transatlantic flight, and was able to accost him: "The inference must be that private information was obtained."
  • (20) "A police officer jumped out of his truck to try to halt the gruesome attack and was accosted by the crowd and accused of being a traitor.

Surrounded


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Surround

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
  • (2) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (3) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
  • (4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (7) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (8) Computed tomography does not allow differentiation between these lesions and surrounding normal tissues.
  • (9) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
  • (10) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
  • (11) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (12) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
  • (13) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (14) This technique is sensitive to the optical anisotropy within the muscle, including that due to intrinsic properties of the protein molecules as well as that due to the regular arrangement of proteins in the surrounding medium.
  • (15) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
  • (16) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (17) At this stage of the observation period the labeling index was very low in surrounding liver, but still high in the gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive areas.
  • (18) The third effect was a shift in center-surround balance towards a more dominant center.
  • (19) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
  • (20) Glial siphoning can distribute the potassium preferentially toward the blood vessels in the area, leading to an elevation in potassium concentration in the ECF surrounding the vascular smooth muscle of the arterioles.

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