immediate surroundings
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmediateandsurroundings
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immediate
adjective
uk/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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surroundings
noun[plural]
uk/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/us/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/
the place where someone or something is and the things that are ...
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(Definition ofimmediateandsurroundingsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In what are people to participate in fashioning their ownimmediatesurroundingswithin a conceived overall framework?
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The text has been chosen to teach a vocabulary dealing mainly with theimmediatesurroundingsof the pupils.
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Through narrative inquiry she found that the four returnees' identities were constantly in flux as they attempted to adjust to theirimmediatesurroundings.
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Their inhabitants had a sense of belonging to theirimmediatesurroundings, the place where they grew up, rather than to some state.
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These were gestures used by the caregiver to overtly encourage the child to attend to an aspect of theimmediatesurroundings.
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This may have made the value of the hospital greatest in itsimmediatesurroundings.
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Instead, their social identity was rooted in, and dependent upon, theirimmediatesurroundings.
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Every settlement maintained a vigilancia and farmers worked armed in the fields, keeping one eye on the horizon and the other on theirimmediatesurroundings.
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Also, individual males occur in different microhabitats within the streams they inhabit, and the likelihood of mating in males may depend on the physical characteristics of theirimmediatesurroundings.
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It seems absurd to register as trademarks a phenomenon that can only exist in the public domain, and which propagates beyond itsimmediatesurroundingsinto the greater public realm.
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The music is intended to transport you back into the past so that it all seems like a dream, to distance you from yourimmediatesurroundings.
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An individual's or a group's room for action is, however, circumscribed both by forces in theimmediatesurroundings, such as family and friends, and by those of the wider society.
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They were generally recruited in the town where the firm had its headquarters or itsimmediatesurroundings and belonged to the same community as the owners of the firm.
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It is assumed that families acted purposefully in order to cope, survive or become upwardly mobile, within the opportunities and constraints of theirimmediatesurroundingsand the larger macro-historical setting.
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Conventional telephony is full-duplex,1 transmitting audio which mimics a blind face-to-face conversation; all participants' talk as well as the sounds in theirimmediatesurroundingsare heard.
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A building of such size, with its horizontal and vertical divisions, needed a crowning cornice to finish it off if it was to fit into itsimmediatesurroundings.
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However, in solution the shell is dynamic and so the coordination number may be defined as the most probable number of solvent molecules constituting theimmediatesurroundingsof the ion.
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It is now the middle distance that matters, and not only theimmediatesurroundingsthat should be considered.
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