original context
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforiginalandcontext
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original
adjective
uk/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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context
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.tekst/us/ˈkɑːn.tekst/
the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help ...
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(Definition oforiginalandcontextfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, in itsoriginalcontextwe (hopefully) understand the different meanings of both sounds quite well.
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Theoriginalcontextof this interment was probably lost at the time the foundations were dismantled.
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In fact, very few tombs have been scientifically identified, and most of those that were identified were reported after theiroriginalcontexthad been destroyed.
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The idea that theoriginalcontextcould be transferred into educational situation is based on one kind of decontextualization.
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It may not be long before teachers run out of boys if they take faithful representation of theoriginalcontexttoo seriously.
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These ideas may retain their original dramatic meaning or become musical objects in their own right, freeing themselves from theiroriginalcontext.
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Due to inevitable dynamics, trulyoriginalcontextis quite rare.
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Whatever the validity or invalidity of this comment in itsoriginalcontext, it points to a significant distinction between two ways of thinking.
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His conviction that the opera is 'hardly performable any more' points to the potential problems of appreciating a work outside itsoriginalcontext.
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Other chapters deal with theoriginalcontextof the play, both social and cultural, influential film versions, and critical appraisals.
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All spellings of foreign words are given as found in theiroriginalcontext.
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In that sense, it is impossible to separate the music from itsoriginalcontext(occasion).
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In the latter cases, she argues, a phrase is driven by the specific connotations that it bears in theoriginalcontext.
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He would then show how they could be freed from theiroriginalcontextand put to use in other ways.
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We can represent the various approaches we have discussed as another continuum, fromoriginalcontextto complete recontextualisation.
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However, it is difficult to maintain that any art form exists merely to be reproduced in a historically correct manner, or inoriginalcontext.
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Theoriginalcontextwas seriously modified, but the unchanged presence of a number of bones allows reconstruction of the initial plan.
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Across the music education literature of the past two decades, concerns are expressed about teaching world musics outside of theiroriginalcontext, and including these in music curricula.
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In music, authenticity has been equated with 'historically correct' by the early music revival movement from the 1950s or 1960s, and with 'placed in theoriginalcontext' by early ethnomusicologists.
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