context
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.tɛkst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkɔn.tekst/
Noun
[edit]context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)
- The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
- —In what context did your attack on him happen? —We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
- 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
- (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
- (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
- (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
- (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
- (programming) The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:context.
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- context-based learning
- context clue
- context collapse
- context-dependent
- context-free
- context-free grammar
- context-free language
- contextful
- contextless
- context menu
- contextomy
- context-sensitive
- context-sensitive grammar
- high context culture
- high-context culture
- KWIC
- KWOC
- licensing context
- low context culture
- low-context culture
- macrocontext
- metacontext
- microcontext
- out-of-context
- out of context
- put into context
- supercontext
- take out of context
Translations
[edit]circumstances or settings
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text in which a word appears
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Verb
[edit]context (third-person singular simple present contexts, present participle contexting, simple past and past participle contexted)
- (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
- 1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character: Or, a True Drunkard with Such Sinnes as Raigne in Him:
- The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- If the Subiect bee Historie, or contexted Fable, then I hold it better put in Prose, or Blanks: for ordinarie discourse neuer shewes so well in Meeter
Adjective
[edit]context (comparative more context, superlative most context)
- (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
- 1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers
- The skynne is composed & context and woven with thredes and vaynes.
- 1662, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, page 73:
- And though he could describe how such a string may be context, yet our Explication will have this advantage in point of probability above his, ...
- 1711-12, William Derham, Physico-theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation (3rd edition, corrected, 1714, page 110)
- the coats, without, are context and callous, firm and strong.
- 1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers
References
[edit]- “context”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “context”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin contextus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]context m (plural contexts or contextos)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “context” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “context”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “context” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French contexte or Latin contextus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]context m (plural contexten)
Derived terms
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[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French contexte.
Noun
[edit]context n (plural contexte)
Declension
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | context | contextul | contexte | contextele | |
genitive-dative | context | contextului | contexte | contextelor | |
vocative | contextule | contextelor |
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