Context vs. Pretext

Contextnoun

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

Contextnoun

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

Contextnoun

(archaeology) 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.

Contextnoun

(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

Contextnoun

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

Contextverb

(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Contextadjective

(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

Contextadjective

Knit or woven together; close; firm.

Contextnoun

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.

Contextverb

To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Contextnoun

discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

Contextnoun

the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event;

Pretextnoun

A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.

Pretextverb

To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

Pretextnoun

Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

Pretextnoun

something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

Pretextnoun

an artful or simulated semblance;

Pretextnoun

a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason

Pretext

A pretext (adj: pretextual) is an excuse to do something or say something that is not accurate. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication.