CONTEXTS
17
Scrabble
19
WWF
C(3) O(1) N(1) T(1) E(1) X(8) T(1) S(1)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
noun
- 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 text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.“Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.”
- 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.
- The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
- For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
verb
- To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
Source: Wiktionary
