Question

context The governor claimed that his remarks were taken out of context and that anyone looking at the whole speech would get a different impression. ˈkɑntɛkst

Accepted Answer

(1) The surrounding spoken or written material in which a word or remark occurs. (2) The conditions or circumstances in which an event occurs; environment or setting. Context reveals meaning. The context of an unfamiliar word can give us contextual clues to help us determine what the word means. Taking a remark out of context can change its meaning entirely. Likewise, people's actions sometimes have to be understood as having occurred in a particular context. The behavior of historical figures should be seen in the context of their time, when standards may have been very different from our own

word	context
definition	(1) The surrounding spoken or written material in which a word or remark occurs. (2) The conditions or circumstances in which an event occurs; environment or setting.
eg_sentence	The governor claimed that his remarks were taken out of context and that anyone looking at the whole speech would get a different impression.
explanation	Context reveals meaning. The context of an unfamiliar word can give us contextual clues to help us determine what the word means. Taking a remark out of context can change its meaning entirely. Likewise, people's actions sometimes have to be understood as having occurred in a particular context. The behavior of historical figures should be seen in the context of their time, when standards may have been very different from our own
IPA	ˈkɑntɛkst

Context Word Remark Surrounding Spoken Written Material Occurs