different between context vs eyed

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 eyed, eied, i?ed, y-y?ed, equivalent to eye +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?d/
• Homophone: I'd

Adjective

eyed (not comparable)

1. Having eyes.
2. Having eye-like spots.

   The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]

     What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.

   • 1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6, [2]

     Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.

   • 1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592:

     Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

   • 1960, Elie Wiesel, Night, translated by Stella Rodway, New York: Bantam, 1986, p. 61,

     Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.

Hyponyms

Related terms

Verb

eyed

1. simple past tense and past participle of eye

Anagrams

• yede, yeed

Middle English

Alternative forms

• i?ed, yhed, ei?ede, y-y?ed, eied

Etymology

From eie +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?id/, /?i?id/, /??i??d/, /?i??d/

Adjective

eyed

1. eyed; having (a certain type of) eye.
2. (of cheese, rare) Having holes.

Descendants

• English: eyed

References

• “eied, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.