taken out of context

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• out of context — taken out of the sentence, missing important words    Brian s comment, Roll of the dice, was taken out of context …   English idioms

• his words were taken out of context — his words were taken out of the setting in which they were originally said, his words were twisted around …   English contemporary dictionary

• was taken out of context — was taken out of the actual situation in which it was said, was presented in the wrong light, was slanted, was distorted …   English contemporary dictionary

• out of context — without the surrounding words or circumstances and so not fully understandable comments that aides have long insisted were taken out of context …   Useful english dictionary

• Fallacy 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… …   Wikipedia

• take 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 …   Useful english dictionary

• quote 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 …   Useful english dictionary

• context — [[t]kɒ̱ntekst[/t]] ♦♦♦ contexts 1) N VAR: usu with supp, oft adj N, N of n The context of an idea or event is the general situation that relates to it, and which helps it to be understood. We are doing this work in the context of reforms in the… …   English dictionary

• context — 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… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• context — noun 1) the wider historical context Syn: circumstances, conditions, factors, state of affairs, situation, background, scene, setting 2) a quote taken out of context Syn: frame of reference, contextual relationship; …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Context-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 …   Wikipedia