FromLatin context(us)
context (countable anduncountable plural contexts
Thesurroundings ,circumstances ,environment ,background orsettings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of anevent or other occurrence.Synonyms: frame framework background backdrop setting purlieus milieu —In whatcontext 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”, inBBC Sport [1] The display and result must be placed in thecontext 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 ) text in which aword orpassage appears and which helpsascertain itsmeaning .Coordinate terms: subtext paratext peritext epitext Withoutcontext , I can't tell ifdish ( archaeology ) surroundings andenvironment in which anartifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact'sfunction and/or culturalmeaning .( mycology ) trama orflesh of amushroom .( logic ) For a formula : a finite set ofvariables , which set contains all thefree variables in the given formula.( programming ) data (register contents,program counter value, etc.) needed toswitch to anotherthread ofexecution .circumstances or settings
Afrikaans:konteks (af) Armenian:համատեքստ (hy) ( hamatekʻst ) Basque:testuinguru Bulgarian:обстано́вка (bg) f ( obstanóvka ) ,ситуа́ция (bg) f ( situácija ) Chinese:Mandarin:場合 / 场合 (zh) ( chǎnghé ) ,情況 / 情况 (zh) ( qíngkuàng ) ,背景 (zh) ( bèijǐng ) ,環境 / 环境 (zh) ( huánjìng ) 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 ( héksher ) Hindi:संदर्भ (hi) m ( sandarbh ) 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 Maori:horopaki Mongolian:please add this translation if you can Norwegian:Bokmål:sammenheng (no) m kontekst (no) m Nynorsk:samanheng m kontekst m Persian:وضعلان 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:please add this translation if you can Vietnamese:bối cảnh (vi)
text in which a word appears
Afrikaans:konteks (af) Albanian:kontekst (sq) m Arabic:سِيَاق m ( siyāq ) Armenian:համատեքստ (hy) ( hamatekʻst ) ,կոնտեքստ (hy) ( kontekʻst ) Azerbaijani:kontekst Belarusian:кантэ́кст m ( kantékst ) Bulgarian:конте́кст (bg) m ( kontékst ) Catalan:context (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:上下文 (zh) ( shàngxiàwén ) ,語境 / 语境 (zh) ( yǔjìng ) ,前後文 / 前后文 (zh) ( qiánhòuwén ) 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 ( héksher ) 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:Northern Kurdish:pêwend (ku) f Kyrgyz:контекст ( kontekst ) Latvian:konteksts m Lithuanian:kontekstas m Macedonian:контекст m ( kontekst ) Malay:konteks Manx:co-lhaih cohecks Mongolian:Cyrillic:контекст ( kontekst ) Norwegian:Bokmål:sammenheng (no) m kontekst (no) m Nynorsk:samanheng m kontekst m Persian:زمینه (fa) ( zamine ) ,بافت (fa) ( bâft ) ,متن (fa) ( matn ) Polish:kontekst (pl) m Portuguese:contexto (pt) m Romanian:context (ro) n Russian:конте́кст (ru) m ( kontékst ) Scottish Gaelic:co-theacsa m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:ко̀нтекст m Roman:kòntekst (sh) m Slovak:kontext m Slovene:kontekst m Spanish:contexto (es) m Swedish:kontext (sv) c Tagalog:kalamnan Tajik:матн (tg) ( matn ) Tatar:контекст ( qontekst ) Thai:บริบท ( bɔɔ-rí-bòt ) Turkish:bağlam (tr) ,kontekst (tr) Turkmen:kontekst Ukrainian:конте́кст m ( kontékst ) Uzbek:kontekst (uz) Vietnamese:văn cảnh (vi) ,ngữ cảnh (vi) ,mạch văn (vi) Welsh:cyd-destun (cy) m
context (third-person singular simple present contexts present participle contexting simple past and past participle contexted
( obsolete ) knit orbind together; tounite closely.1638 Richard Younge ,The Drunkard's Character: Or, a True Drunkard with Such Sinnes as Raigne in Him :The whole worlds frame, which iscontexted onely by commerce and contracts.
1623 Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political :If the Subiect bee Historie, orcontexted Fable, then I hold it better put in Prose, or Blanks: for ordinarie discourse neuer shewes so well in Meeter
context (comparative morecontext ,superlative mostcontext )
( obsolete ) 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 ,page73 :And though he could describe how such a string may becontext , 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, arecontext and callous, firm and strong. Borrowed fromLatin contextus
context m plural contexts or contextos
context Borrowed fromMiddle French contexte Latin contextus
IPA (key ) : /ˈkɔn.tɛkst/ Hyphenation:con‧text context m plural contexten nodiminutive )
context Borrowed fromFrench contexte
context n plural contexte
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