across, surround, transfusion of sth

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Johnson's Epistemology

I exclaimed to her, "I am now, intellectually, Hermippus redivivus, I am quite restored by him, by transfusion of mind." "There are many (she replied) who ...



transfusion Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
1 the process of adding an amount of blood to the body of a person or animal, or the amount of blood itself:
She suffered kidney failure and needed a blood transfusion.

2 transfusion of sth when a new quantity of something powerful, effective or important is put into an organization, group or place:
a transfusion of talent/energy/enthusiasm/money




 trans・fuse
 
━━ vt. 注ぎ移す; 浸み込ます ((into)); （考えを）吹きこむ ((into)); 【医】輸血する.
 trans・fusion　━━ n.

surround verb [T]
to be everywhere around something:
Snow-capped mountains surround the city.
Gwen sat at her desk, surrounded by books and papers.
Mystery still surrounds the exact circumstances of Stalin's death.
She said that she wanted to die surrounded by the people she loves (= with them all present).
Early this morning, armed police surrounded (= moved into a position so that they were everywhere around) a house which they thought contained an escaped prisoner.

surround
noun [C]
the area or border around something:
Our bath has a tiled surround.
door-srround

surrounding
adjective [before noun]
A lot of the children at the school do not live in the town, but come in from the surrounding countryside.

surroundings
plural noun
1 the place where someone or something is and the things that are in it:
Some butterflies blend in with their surroundings so that it's difficult to see them.

2 the place where someone lives and the conditions they live in:
They live in very comfortable/pleasant/drab/bleak surroundings.

surrounds
plural noun US
the area that is near:
I don't think there are any video stores in the immediate surrounds.

 sur・round

  

━━ vt. 取囲む, めぐらす ((with, by)); 包囲する.━━ n. 〔英〕 飾り縁; じゅうたんの周りの（壁までの）床; へり敷物.
 sur・round・ing　━━ n., a. 取囲む物［こと］; （pl.） 周囲（の状況）, 環境; 取囲む, 周囲の.

across Show phonetics
adverb, preposition
from one side to the other of something with clear limits, such as an area of land, a road or river:
She walked across the field/road.
They're building a new bridge across the river.

across Show phonetics
preposition
1 on the opposite side of:
The library is just across the road.

2 in every part of a particular place or country:
Voting took place peacefully across most of the country.