Context

//ˈkɒn.tɛkst//

"Context" in a Sentence (18 examples)

It depends on the context.

If you don't understand something, it's because you aren't aware of its context.

The meaning of words can change according to their context.

The meaning of a word is determined by the context where it is used.

An effective writer is one who knows what sort of words should be employed in any specific context.

Our smile, which is understandable in the context of Japanese culture, sometimes causes a lot of confusion and is notorious among foreign people as a mysterious smile.

Get the meaning of a word from its context.

When indicating 'tense' in Chinese, as shown above, there are 'particles', 'time-specifying words' and also many cases where it depends on context.

Is context really necessary to understand the subjunctive?

Icelanders can read old sagas, but the writing and context have changed so much that they don't understand what the texts are about.

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—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.

Without context, I can't tell if dish refers to a plate, or to the food served thereon.

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

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.

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