SURFACES Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of surface

as in exteriors

an outer part or layer the surface of just about everything in the kitchen was covered with soot after we put the grease fire out

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verb

present tense third-person singular of surface

as in emerges

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly no information regarding the stolen car has surfaced since the police found it abandoned on a country road

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as in rises

to penetrate the surface (as of water) from below a submarine surfaced on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier

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Noun

Employees are using a chlorine solution with chemical cleaners to sanitize food contact surfaces while dish machine is inoperable. — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026 Chalking, per university rules that dictate when, where and how students can protest, is not allowed on walls and vertical surfaces. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Measuring just a few nanometres, the molecule can attach to gold surfaces through sulfur atoms. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 The Atlas remains comfortable enough on smoother highways, but rough surfaces expose some of its limitations. — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026 Clear overnight skies with light winds and low humidity levels will allow rapid cooling, with hard road surfaces cooling fast. — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Red’s plumage became slightly softer, while his eyes and beak gained firmer, more toy-like surfaces. — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026

Verb

Manifest surfaces Machado’s team soon learned that information about one of the charter flights had circulated outside the group. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026 The value appears when the team actually surfaces, tests and integrates what different people know. — Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Instead of a treasury analyst manually pulling payment data into a spreadsheet to spot trends, the tool surfaces patterns, opportunities and risks automatically, through dashboards and peer comparisons. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 Quantum Metric said its VoC solution automatically surfaces sentiment, issues and trends across feedback, then ties it to prior sessions. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026 This is something that surfaces at a certain point in the film. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026 When a location's performance shifts, the data surfaces it in time to act. — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026 What reads at a casual distance as serene maternal tenderness shifts, on closer inspection, into something more ambivalent—a shade of melancholy that surfaces only when the eye lingers on Mary’s face. — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026

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Since completing her project, the building, whose exteriors were landmarked, has been redeveloped into residential units, with the only hint of its past the remaining rooftop sign.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Pemberley exteriors and grounds scenes were filmed at Lyme Park, an estate in the Peak District south of Manchester.

— Nicholas DeRenzo, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of exteriors

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They’re led by Laura Berens, a CEO and entrepreneur, who emerges as the finest leader of the experiment with her firm-but-fair methods.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026
Tantalizing opportunities may be found in copper-oxide ceramics known as cuprates, but achieving them requires first understanding how the superconducting phenomenon emerges at relatively warm temperatures.

— Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of emerges

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The question arises because the wicker fellow is, in spite of his earthy origin, downright Olympian in the sack.

— Valerie Monroe, Allure, 23 Oct. 2026
Schrodinger’s manuscript also solves the problem that arises after the first measurement, where the distribution changes.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of arises

Verb

However, its point of greatest eclipse occurs just a few miles from Thebes, the magnificent religious and political capital of ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Consequently, even if a down cycle occurs, it is not expected to show the same sharp decline seen in the past.

— Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of occurs

Verb

For the technology leader responsible for keeping essential services running, these details provide a basis for assessing what protections exist and what happens in an extreme scenario.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
The conversational layer may be what a borrower sees, but the difficult work happens deeper in the stack, where documents, rules, calculations, decisions, and transaction states have to remain connected.

— Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of happens

Verb

His critics see a president who failed to tame inflation and keep America out of overseas conflicts, and whose agenda has fueled higher prices as the war with Iran appears to be at a stalemate.

— JOSH BOAK, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Two letters redirect actions MuTRAP is a backdoor attack, also known as a Trojan attack, in which malicious behavior is embedded in a model and activated only when a specific trigger appears.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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