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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See Wiktionary:Context labels for the Wiktionary style guide for context in definitions
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Latin context(us) .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˈkɒn.tɛkst/
- (General American ) IPA (key): /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
- (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.
- Synonyms: frame , framework , background , backdrop , setting , purlieus , milieu
- —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 compaction
- context-dependent
- context-free
- context-free grammar
- context-free language
- contextful
- contextless
- context menu
- contextomy
- context principle
- 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
- Afrikaans: konteks (af)
- Armenian: համատեքստ (hy) (hamatekʻst)
- Basque: testuinguru
- Bulgarian: обстано́вка (bg) f (obstanóvka), ситуа́ция (bg) f (situácija)
- Chinese:
- Czech: kontext (cs) m, souvislosti (cs) f pl
- Danish: kontekst (da) c, sammenhæng c
- Dutch: context (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: asiayhteys (fi) , yhteys (fi) , konteksti (fi)
- French: contexte (fr) m
- Galician: contexto (gl) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Kontext (de) m, Zusammenhang (de) m
- Greek: συμφραζόμενα (el) n pl (symfrazómena), πλαίσιο (el) n (plaísio)
- Hebrew: הֶקְשֵׁר (he) m (hekshér)
- Hindi: संदर्भ (hi) m (sandarbh), परिदृश्य m (paridŕśya), परिप्रेक्ष्य (hi) m (pariprekṣya)
- Hungarian: összefüggés (hu) , kontextus (hu)
- Icelandic: samhengi (is) n
- Irish: comhthéacs m
- Italian: contesto (it) m
- Japanese: 前後関係 (ぜんごかんけい, zengokankei), 状況 (ja) (じょうきょう, jōkyō)
- Khmer: កាលៈទេសៈ (km) (kaalaʼteisaʼ)
- Korean: 맥락(脈絡) (ko) (maengnak), 짜임새 (ko) (jjaimsae), 바탕 (ko) (batang)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Māori: horopaki
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: kontekst (pl) m
- Portuguese: contexto (pt) m
- Romanian: context (ro) n
- Russian: обстано́вка (ru) f (obstanóvka), ситуа́ция (ru) f (situácija), конте́кст (ru) m (kontékst)
- Scottish Gaelic: co-theacsa m
- Spanish: contexto (es) m, marco (es) m
- Swedish: sammanhang (sv) n, kontext (sv) c
- Tagalog: kalamnan
- Telugu: సందర్భం (te) (sandarbhaṁ)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: bağlam (tr) , kontekst (tr)
- Vietnamese: bối cảnh (vi)
text in which a word appears
- Afrikaans: konteks (af)
- Albanian: kontekst (sq) m
- Arabic: سِيَاق m (siyāq), قَرِينَة f (qarīna)
- Armenian: համատեքստ (hy) (hamatekʻst), կոնտեքստ (hy) (kontekʻst)
- Azerbaijani: kontekst
- Belarusian: кантэ́кст m (kantékst)
- Bulgarian: конте́кст (bg) m (kontékst)
- Catalan: context (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: kontext (cs) m
- Danish: kontekst (da) c
- Dutch: context (nl) m
- Esperanto: kunteksto
- Estonian: kontekst
- Finnish: asiayhteys (fi) , yhteys (fi) , konteksti (fi)
- French: contexte (fr) m
- Galician: contexto (gl) m
- Georgian: კონტექსტი (ḳonṭeksṭi)
- German: Kontext (de) m
- Greek: συμφραζόμενα (el) n (symfrazómena)
- Hebrew: הֶקְשֵׁר (he) m (hekshér)
- Hindi: संदर्भ (hi) m (sandarbh)
- Hungarian: szövegkörnyezet (hu) , kontextus (hu) , szövegösszefüggés (hu)
- Icelandic: samhengi (is) n
- Ido: kuntexto (io)
- Indonesian: konteks (id)
- Irish: comhthéacs m
- Italian: contesto (it) m
- Japanese: 文脈 (ja) (ぶんみゃく, bunmyaku), 前後関係 (ぜんごかんけい, zengokankei)
- Kazakh: мәнмәтін (mänmätın), контекст (kontekst)
- Korean: 문맥(文脈) (ko) (munmaek), 맥락(脈絡) (ko) (maengnak)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: контекст (kontekst)
- Latvian: konteksts m
- Lithuanian: kontekstas m
- Macedonian: контекст m (kontekst)
- Malay: konteks
- Manx: co-lhaih , cohecks
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: контекст (kontekst)
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: kontekst (pl) m
- Portuguese: contexto (pt) m
- Romanian: context (ro) n
- Russian: конте́кст (ru) m (kontékst)
- Scottish Gaelic: co-theacsa m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: kontext m
- Slovene: kontekst m
- Spanish: contexto (es) m
- Swedish: kontext (sv) c
- Tagalog: kalamnan
- Tajik: матн (tg) (matn)
- Tatar: контекст (qöntekst)
- Thai: บริบท (th) (bɔɔ-rí-bòt)
- Turkish: bağlam (tr) , kontekst (tr)
- Turkmen: kontekst
- Ukrainian: конте́кст m (kontékst)
- Urdu: سِیاق و سَباق (siyāq o sabāq), قَرِینَہ m (qarīna), سِیاق m (siyāq)
- Uzbek: kontekst (uz)
- Vietnamese: văn cảnh (vi) , ngữ cảnh (vi) , mạch văn (vi)
- Welsh: cyd-destun (cy) m
See also
[edit ]- (surroundings in situ, in archaeology): provenance , provenience ; unprovenanced , unprovenienced
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.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), "context", in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: [...] , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Catalan
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Latin contextus .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- IPA (key): (Northern ) [kunˈte̞kst]
- IPA (key): (Balearic , Northwestern ) [konˈtekst]
- IPA (key): (Central ) [kunˈtekst]
- IPA (key): (Valencia ) [konˈtɛkst]
Noun
[edit ]context m (plural contexts or contextos )
Related terms
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), "context", in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
- "context", in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- "context", in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Dutch
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Middle French contexte or Latin contextus .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]context m (plural contexten , no diminutive )
Derived terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]Romanian
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from French contexte .
Noun
[edit ]context n (plural contexte )
Declension
[edit ]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | context | contextul | contexte | contextele |
| genitive-dative | context | contextului | contexte | contextelor |
| vocative | contextule | contextelor | ||
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