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context
[ kon-tekst ]
noun
- the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect:
You have misinterpreted my remark because you took it out of context.
- the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.
Synonyms: climate, milieu, background
- Mycology. the fleshy fibrous body of the pileus in mushrooms.
context
/ ˈkɒntɛkst /
noun
- the parts of a piece of writing, speech, etc, that precede and follow a word or passage and contribute to its full meaning
it is unfair to quote out of context
- the conditions and circumstances that are relevant to an event, fact, etc
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- context·less adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of context1
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Example Sentences
In that context, Sotto Sotto was one of the all-out survivors.
Prevalence depends on context, and sometimes unique advantages outweigh the genetic costs.
I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism.
Just wanted to place it in the context of slates needing picture choices that throw off revenue to make the numbers work.
Clearly the liberation of Gross took place in the context of what might be called a “grand bargain.”
She held it while the trooper bent over the strange scrawl, and ran his eyes along it to learn the context.
If the context makes an otherwise indefinite thing definite, it is sufficient.
The context in Chaucer does not seem to warrant the interpretation given by Tyrwhit.
I alter pleyneth in l. 2302 to pleyeth, to suit the context more closely.
The translator could think of no better word, because the context is jocular.
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