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Context vs Contextomy - What's the difference?

context | contextomy |

As nouns the difference between context and contextomy

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 contextomy is the practice (or act) of quoting a person (or people) out of context, often with the aim of winning an argument, often intending obfuscation of the quote's actual meaning.

As a verb context

is to knit or bind together; to unite closely.

As an adjective context

is knit or woven together; close; firm.

context

English

Noun

(en 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

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    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 context

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "context")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
    • (Feltham)
  • * R. Junius
    • The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
  • * Derham
    • The coats, without, are context and callous.
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    contextomy

    English

    (wikipedia contextomy)

    Noun

    (contextomies)
  • The practice (or act) of quoting a person (or people) out of context, often with the aim of winning an argument, often intending obfuscation of the quote's actual meaning.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1964 , author=Milton Mayer , title=What can a man do?: A selection of his most challenging writings , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=33 , passage=…saying that the Literary Gazette'' had committed the ''Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me. , indent2=*:}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1967 , author=Paul F. Boller , title=Quotemanship: the use and abuse of quotations for polemical and other purposes , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=286 , passage=The competent quoteman, no matter how eager he is to outwit his opponent, will have neither the need nor the inclination to stoop to contextomy of the flagrantly mendacious sort. , indent2=*:}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2008 , date=May 29 , author=Amol Rajan , title=Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews , work=The Independent citation , passage=The prosecution would have to prove that audiences were misled by the practice, known as contextomy . Those who break the laws could face fines… , indent2=*:}}

    Derived terms

    * contextomize