Context vs Clarification - What's the difference?
context | clarification |
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Moldova 0-5 England
, work=BBC Sport
(senseid) (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
(archaeology) 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.
(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
* R. Junius
(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
* Derham
The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities]]; particularly, the clearing or [[fine, fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
The act of freeing from obscurities.
As nouns the difference between context and clarification
is that context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence while clarification is the act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities]]; particularly, the clearing or [[fine|fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.As a verb context
is (obsolete) to knit or bind together; to unite closely.As an adjective context
is (obsolete) knit or woven together; close; firm.context
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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Antonyms
*Derived terms
() * context-dependent * context-free * context-sensitive * in context, compare in isolation * keyword in context, KWIC * keyword out of context, KWOC * out of context * take out of contextQuotations
* (English Citations of "context")Verb
(en verb)- (Feltham)
- The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The coats, without, are context and callous.
clarification
English
Noun
(en noun)- The clarification of wine.
- Your ideas deserve clarification.