context
- See Wiktionary:Context labels for the Wiktionary style guide for context in definitions
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈ kɒn.tɛkst/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈ kɑːn.tɛkst/
NounEdit
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.
- Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.
- (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.
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:context.
AntonymsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
circumstances or settings
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text in which a word appears
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VerbEdit
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
AdjectiveEdit
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
ReferencesEdit
- context at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “context”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin contextus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
context m (plural contexts or contextos)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “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, 2023
- “context” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French contexte or Latin contextus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
context m (plural contexten)
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DescendantsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
context n (plural contexte)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of context
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) context | contextul | (niște) contexte | contextele |
genitive/dative | (unui) context | contextului | (unor) contexte | contextelor |
vocative | contextule | contextelor |