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con·tex·ture

(kən-tĕks′chər, kŏn′tĕks′-)

1. The act of weaving or assembling parts into a whole.

2. An arrangement of interconnected parts; a structure.

con·tex′tur·al adj.

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contexture

(kənˈtɛkstʃə)

1. the fact, process, or manner of weaving or of being woven together

2. the arrangement of assembled parts; structure

3. an interwoven structure; fabric

conˈtextural adj

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con•tex•ture

(kənˈtɛks tʃər)

n.

1. the arrangement and union of the constituent parts of anything; structure.

2. an interwoven structure; fabric.

3. the act or process of weaving or being woven together.

[1595–1605; < French]

con•tex′tur•al, adj.

con•tex′tured, adj.

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contexture

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A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure:

fabric, fiber, texture, warp and woof, web.

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Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.

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I present it to you, not that you may kiss it, but that you may observe the contexture of the sinews, the close network of the muscles, the breadth and capacity of the veins, whence you may infer what must be the strength of the arm that has such a hand."

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Given the importance of HLA-G gene regions related to binding for HIF-1 in the hypoxia environmental contexture, we further explored the nucleotide variations in specific HREs for HIF-1 in HLA-G gene.

Hypoxic Modulation of HLA-G Expression through the Metabolic Sensor HIF-1 in Human Cancer Cells

What exactly do they say to each other, and when they are read all together as contexture, as fabric, what does this section of "A"-23 say?

Words' contexts, contexts' nouns: Zukofsky's objectivist quotations

Galon, "From the immune contexture to the immunoscore: the role of prognostic and predictive immune markers in cancer," Current Opinion in Immunology, vol.

The Differential Contribution of the Innate Immune System to a Good Pathological Response in the Breast and Axillary Lymph Nodes Induced by Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Women with Large and Locally Advanced Breast Cancers

12 Mukaovsk makes a number of pertinent observations in this connection: "Unlike monologic discourse, which has a single and continuous contexture, several or at least two contextures interpenetrate and alternate in dinlogic discourse.

The Mutt and Jute dialogue in Joyce's Finnegans Wake: Some Gricean Perspectives

Perhaps this is because the idea of an utterance free from worldly contexture and circumstances, a tongue "ungoverned" in Heaney's sense, has no real force for him.

The occasion and contexture of speech in contemporary British poetry

[c] Their whole contexture is manly; they are not concerned with pretty little flowers [Seneca].