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contex

contex verb: to weave together; to form by interweaving.

Verb

contex (third-person singular simple present contexes, present participle contexing, simple past and past participle contexed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To weave together; to form by interweaving.
    • Having examin'd also several kinds of Mushroms, I finde their texture to be somewhat of this kind, that is, to consist of an infinite company of small filaments, every way contex'd and woven together, so as to make a kind of cloth […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXII

Forms of contex

third-person singular presentcontexes
present participlecontexing
past participlecontexed
pastcontexed

Origin of contex

From Latin contexere.

Questions about contex

What does contex mean?
Contex means to weave together; to form by interweaving.
What part of speech is contex?
Contex is a verb.
What is the past tense of contex?
The past tense of contex is contexed.

Words near contex in the dictionary

  1. contestible
  2. contesting
  3. contestingly
  4. contestings
  5. contests
  6. contex
  7. contexed
  8. contexing
  9. context
  10. context clue
  11. context clues

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