Context
['kɒntekst] or ['kɑntɛkst]
Definition
(noun.) discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation.
(noun.) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; 'the historical context'.
Typed by Geoffrey--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
(n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
(v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
Typed by Carolyn
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Words immediately preceding or following.
Typist: Tim
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tenor, treatment, texture, composition, matter
ANT:Text, quotation, citation, passage, extract
Checked by Dick
Definition
n. the parts of a discourse or treatise which precede and follow a special passage and fix its true meaning.—adj. Context′ual—adv. Context′ually.—n. Context′ure the interweaving of parts into a whole: the structure or system of anything: any interwoven fabric: the composition of a writing.—v.t. (Carlyle) to weave.
Checker: Selma
Examples
- But general also means abstract, or detached from all specific context. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The intellectual and social context has now changed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Isolation of subject matter from a social context is the chief obstruction in current practice to securing a general training of mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It remains to disentangle them from the context in which they have been referred to, and discuss explicitly their nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It all depends upon the context of perceived connections in which it is placed; the reach of imagination in realizing connections is inexhaustible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Perception of meanings depends upon perception of connections, of context. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His originality lay in the use to which these familiar acquaintances were put by introduction into an unfamiliar context. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The two factors of truth in the conception may easily be disentangled from association with the false context which perverts them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That involves a context of work and play in association with others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For example, the sound fang meant not only boat, but a place, spinning, fragrant, inquire, and several other meanings according to the context. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But immediately they do not designate them in their common context, but translated into terms of scientific inquiry. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I do not know whether a quotation torn from its context can possibly do justice to its author. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The facts had been torn to pieces by being taken out of their context. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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