quote out of context

  • 1quote 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 …

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  • 2Fallacy 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… …

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  • 3Quote mining — is the practice of purposely compiling frequently misleading quotes from large volumes of literature or speech.cite book | last = Forrest | first = Barbara | authorlink = Barbara Forrest | coauthors = Paul R. Gross | title = Creationism s Trojan… …

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  • 4take 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 …

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  • 5context — [kän′tekst΄] n. [ME < L contextus, a joining together, orig., pp. of contexere, to weave together < com , together + texere, to weave: see TECHNIC] 1. the parts of a sentence, paragraph, discourse, etc. immediately next to or surrounding a… …

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  • 6context — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ broad, full, general, larger, overall, wider ▪ You have to see the problem in a wider context. ▪ narrow …

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  • 7context */*/*/ — 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… …

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  • 8context — con|text W1S3 [ˈkɔntekst US ˈka:n ] n [U and C] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: contextus connection of words , from contexere to weave together , from com ( COM ) + texere to weave ] 1.) the situation, events, or information that are related… …

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  • 9context — noun (C) 1 the situation, events, or information that are related to something, and that help you to understand it better: These changes must be seen in their historical and social context. | in context (=considered together with the related… …

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  • 10Quote — For the Wikipedia quotation templates, see Category:Quotation templates. Quotation is the repetition of someone else s statement. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer. Both of these …

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