Location vs Context - What's the difference?
location | context |
A particular point or place in physical space.
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(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
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The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
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(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
As nouns the difference between location and context
is that location is a particular point or place in physical space while context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.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.location
English
(wikipedia location)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations
Synonyms
* (a place) placeDerived terms
* geolocationExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----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.