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con⋅text

  [kon-tekst]
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–noun
1. the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect: You have misinterpreted my remark because you took it out of context.
2. the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.
3. Mycology. the fleshy fibrous body of the pileus in mushrooms.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L contextus a joining together, scheme, structure, equiv. to contex(ere) to join by weaving (con- con- + texere to plait, weave) + -tus suffix of v. action; cf. text

Related forms:
con⋅text⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
2. background, milieu, climate.
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con·text   (kŏn'těkst')   
n.  
  1. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.
  2. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.

[Middle English, composition, from Latin contextus, from past participle of contexere, to join together : com-, com- + texere, to weave; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]
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Context

Con*text"\, a. [L. contextus, p. p. of contexere to weave, to unite; con- + texere to weave. See Text.] Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.]

The coats, without, are context and callous. --Derham.

Context

Con"text\, n. [L. contextus; cf. F. contexte .] 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.

According to all the light that the contexts afford. --Sharp.

Context

Con*text"\, v. t. To knit or bind together; to unite closely. [Obs.] --Feltham.

The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts. --R. Junius.
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Language Translation for : context
Spanish: contexto,
German: der Zusammenhang,
Japanese: 前後関係
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context 
1432, from L. contextus "a joining together," orig. pp. of contexere "to weave together," from com- "together" + textere "to weave" (see texture).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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context
That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something else.
In a grammar it refers to the symbols before and after the symbol under consideration. If the syntax of a symbol is independent of its context, the grammar is said to be context-free.

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