context — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Sinônimos

   frameframeworkbackgroundbackdropsettingpurlieusmilieu

   Exemplos

   —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.

   Mais exemplos (1)

   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.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   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.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

4. The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

5. For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

6. The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

Verbo

1. To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Exemplos

   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

Adjetivo

1. Knit or woven together; close; firm.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Exemplos

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   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.

Substantivo

1. discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

   Sinônimos

   linguistic contextcontext of use

   Termos mais gerais

   discourse

2. the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

   Sinônimos

   circumstancesetting

   Termos mais gerais

   environment

   Exemplos

   the historical context