out-of-context

out-of-context
Not in the context necessary to show original meaning.

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  • out of context — adverb Without context that is needed for understanding the original meaning. They took his statements out of context and made him sound like an extremist …   Wiktionary

  • 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

  • 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

  • out of context —    said inadvisedly    A use by politicians when they have forgotten what exactly they may have said, wish they had never said it, or were unaware that anyone was recording it. As journalists are known to be selective in their quotations, this… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 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

  • take out of context — index abstract (separate) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • 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

  • Context (language use) — Context is a notion used in the language sciences (linguistics, sociolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, semiotics, etc.) in two different ways, namely as verbal context social context Contents 1 Verbal… …   Wikipedia

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