Context vs. Content

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  • Context (noun)

    The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.

    “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.”

  • Context (noun)

    The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.

  • Context (noun)

    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.

  • Context (noun)

    The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

  • Context (noun)

    For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.

  • Context (verb)

    To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

  • Context (adjective)

    Knit or woven together; close; firm.

  • Content (noun)

    That which is contained.

  • Content (noun)

    Subject matter; that which is contained in writing or speech.

  • Content (noun)

    The amount of material contained; contents.

  • Content (noun)

    Capacity for holding.

  • Content (noun)

    The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon).

  • Content (noun)

    The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.

  • Content (noun)

    Satisfaction; contentment.

    “They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.”

  • Content (noun)

    Acquiescence without examination.

  • Content (noun)

    That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

  • Content (noun)

    An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.

  • Content (noun)

    A member who votes in assent.

  • Content (adjective)

    Satisfied.

  • Content (interjection)

    Alright, agreed.

  • Content (verb)

    To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.

    “You can’t have any more – you’ll have to content yourself with what you already have.”

  • Content (verb)

    To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

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