context
kon tekst
- n discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
- n the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
the historical context
- The back-and-forth of this establishes a context.
- To find a picture shorn of context, it would be important to pick a photograph thats sufficiently removed for me in time and context a photograph preternaturally unfamiliar.
- Judge Alito's detractors are ignoring the context and content of two memos he wrote when he was a junior lawyer in the office of the solicitor general.