Frames and Context

noun

• Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation.
  • synonyms: linguistic context, context of use
• The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event.
  • usage: "the historical context"
  • synonyms: circumstance, setting

• (a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
• (n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
• (v.t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.