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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)

1. The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
3. (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.

4. (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.
5. (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
6. (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)

1. (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)

1. (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.

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)

1. 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)

1. context

Derived terms

• contextgevoelig
• contextueel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: konteks
• ? Indonesian: konteks

Romanian

Etymology

From French contexte

Noun

context n (plural contexte)

1. context

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excapp?re, literally "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/; (proscribed) /?k?ske?p/, /?k?ske?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p
• Hyphenation: es?cape

Verb

escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

2. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

4. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
   • c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

     They escaped the search of the enemy.

5. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
   • 1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:

     If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

6. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Usage notes

• In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• break loose

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

escape (plural escapes)

1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

   The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.

2. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
3. Something that has escaped; an escapee.
4. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
5. (computing) escape key
6. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

   You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

7. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
8. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
9. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

   • I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.

10. (obsolete) A sally.
11. (architecture) An apophyge.

Translations

References

• escape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• escape at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Escape in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Peaces, espace, peaces

Asturian

Etymology

From escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape

French

Adjective

escape (plural escapes)

1. escape

Noun

escape f (plural escapes)

1. (architecture) escape

Related terms

• échapper
• escapade
• escaper

Galician

Etymology

From escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape

Verb

escape

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of escapar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of escapar

Further reading

• “escape” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Etymology

From English escape.

Noun

escape m (invariable)

1. (computing) The escape key

Portuguese

Etymology

From escapar.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -api

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape

Verb

escape

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of escapar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of escapar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of escapar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of escapar

Further reading

• “escape” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From escapar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?kape/, [es?ka.pe]

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape
2. leak

   Synonym: fuga

3. exhaust pipe, tailpipe

   Synonym: tubo de escape

Derived terms

• a escape
• carácter de escape
• válvula de escape
• velocidad de escape

Related terms

• escapatoria
• escapada

Verb

escape

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of escapar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of escapar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of escapar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of escapar.

Further reading

• “escape” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.