different between context vs book
context
- See Wiktionary:Context labels for the Wiktionary style guide for context in definitions
English
Etymology
From Latin contextus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /? k?n.t?kst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /? k??n.t?kst/
Noun
context (countable and uncountable, plural contexts)
- The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
- (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.
- (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:context.
Antonyms
- isolation
Hyponyms
- subcontext
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
context (third-person singular simple present contexts, present participle contexting, simple past and past participle contexted)
- (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
- 1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character: Or, a True Drunkard with Such Sinnes as Raigne in Him
- The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts.
Adjective
context (comparative more context, superlative most context)
- (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
- 1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers
- The skynne is composed & context and woven with thredes and vaynes.
- 1711-12, William Derham, Physico-theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation (3rd edition, corrected, 1714, page 110)
- the coats, without, are context and callous, firm and strong.
- 1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers
References
- context at OneLook Dictionary Search
- context in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin contextus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kon?tekst/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun?tekst/
Noun
context m (plural contexts or contextos)
- context
Related terms
- contextual
Further reading
- “context” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French contexte or Latin contextus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?n.t?kst/
- Hyphenation: con?text
Noun
context m (plural contexten)
- context
Derived terms
- contextgevoelig
- contextueel
Descendants
- Afrikaans: konteks
- ? Indonesian: konteks
Romanian
Etymology
From French contexte
Noun
context n (plural contexte)
- context
Declension
context From the web:
- what context clues
- what context means
- what context clues mean
- what contextualization
- what context clues are you analyzing
- what context clue uses dashes
- what content supports your claim
- what contexts inform the crafting of policy
book
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: bo?ok, IPA(key): /b?k/
- enPR: bo?ok IPA(key): /bu?k/ (still sometimes northern England; otherwise obsolete)
- plural
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: buck (accents without the foot–?strut split)
Etymology 1
From Middle English booke, book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-West Germanic *b?k, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”).
Alternative forms
- booke (archaic)
Noun
book (plural books)
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- 1962, James East Irby translating Luis Borges as "The Library of Babel":
- I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.
- 1983, Steve Horelick & al., "Reading Rainbow":
- I can be anything.
Take a look!
It's in a book:
A reading rainbow.
- I can be anything.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51:
- Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’
- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
- 1962, James East Irby translating Luis Borges as "The Library of Babel":
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- I have three copies of his first book.
- A major division of a long work.
- Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
- Synonyms: tome, volume
- (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
- Synonym: booklet
- (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
- Synonym: libretto
- (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
- Synonyms: account, record
- (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
- (poker slang) four of a kind
- (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
- (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (figuratively) Any source of instruction.
- (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)
- The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.
- 1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly (volume 21, page 36)
- On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.
- 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:book
Hyponyms
- See Thesaurus:book
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See book/translations § Noun.
See also
- incunable
- scroll
- tome
- volume
Etymology 2
From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English b?cian, ?eb?cian, from the noun (see above).
Verb
book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)
- (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
- Synonym: reserve
- (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- They booked that message from the hill
- Synonyms: make a note of, note down, record, write down
- (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
- He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.
- Synonyms: bomb, hurtle, rocket, speed, shoot, whiz
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- He was here earlier, but he booked.
Derived terms
Translations
See book/translations § Verb.
Etymology 3
From Middle English book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-Germanic *b?k, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakan? (“to bake”).
Verb
book
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
References
Anagrams
- Boko, Koob, boko, bòkò, kobo
Limburgish
Etymology
From Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buok, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?k/
Noun
book n (plural beuk)
- book
Mansaka
Noun
book
- piece
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English b?c.
Noun
book (plural books)
- Alternative form of booke
Etymology 2
From Old English b?c.
Noun
book (plural books)
- Alternative form of bouk
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
book
- imperative of booke
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