context
SubstantivVerbAdjektivhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈkɒn.tɛkst//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈkɑn.tɛkst//
- Australien//ˈkɔn.tekst//
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
Substantiv
- 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.
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.
- 2
The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
Without context, I can't tell if dish refers to a plate, or to the food served thereon.
- 3
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.
- 4
The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
- 5
For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
- 6
The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
Herkunft
From Latin context(us).
Verb
- 1
veraltetTo knit or bind together; to unite closely.
The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts.
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
Adjektiv
- 1
veraltetKnit 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.
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, ...
the coats, without, are context and callous, firm and strong.
Formen
- Plural
- contexts
- Komparativ
- more context
- Superlativ
- most context
- Präteritum
- contexted
- Partizip II
- contexted
- Partizip I
- contexting
- 3. Person Singular
- contexts
context · The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
continent · One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or…Continent · Mainland Europe, as seen from the British Isles.continental · Of or relating to a continent or continents.