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Revision as of 11:15, 2 June 2024

See Wiktionary:Context labels for the Wiktionary style guide for context in definitions

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin contextus.

Pronunciation

Noun

context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)

  1. 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.
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
  5. (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
  6. (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
  7. (programming) The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.

Quotations

Antonyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

text in which a word appears

Verb

context (third-person singular simple present contexts, present participle contexting, simple past and past participle contexted)

  1. (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

context (comparative more context, superlative most context)

  1. (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.

References

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contextus.

Pronunciation

Noun

context m (plural contexts or contextos)

  1. context

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French contexte or Latin contextus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔn.tɛkst/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: con‧text

Noun

context m (plural contexten)

  1. context

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: konteks
  • → Indonesian: konteks

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French contexte.

Noun

context n (plural contexte)

  1. context

Declension

Declension of context
singular plural
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
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