take out of context
1take out of context — index abstract (separate) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2take out of context — verb To interpret something in a manner in which it was not intended to be understood, often deliberately …
3take something out of context — take/quote/something out of context phrase to use only part of something that someone said, so that the original meaning is changed What I said has been taken completely out of context by the media. Thesaurus: to say something again, or to repeat …
4take out of — phr verb Take out of is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bag, ↑basket, ↑box, ↑circulation, ↑context, ↑library, ↑oven, ↑service, ↑storage, ↑suitcase, ↑worry …
5quote something out of context — take/quote/something out of context phrase to use only part of something that someone said, so that the original meaning is changed What I said has been taken completely out of context by the media. Thesaurus: to say something again, or to repeat …
6take out — vb to kill or destroy. A military euphemism which came to public notice in the USA during the Vietnam War. The term was subsequently appropriated for use in the context of crime and law enforce ment. ► I thought, if I could get my hands around… …
7Fallacy of quoting out of context — The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining , is a logical fallacy and a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended… …
8Context-dependent memory — refers to improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same. One particularly common example of context dependence at work occurs when an individual has lost an item (e.g. lost car …
9context — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ broad, full, general, larger, overall, wider ▪ You have to see the problem in a wider context. ▪ narrow …
10context */*/*/ — UK [ˈkɒntekst] / US [ˈkɑnˌtekst] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms context : singular context plural contexts 1) the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it These events are meaningless outside their… …
