The first function deals with recognizing a word, the second with understanding the word's context in a sentence, and the third lets us articulate the word by speaking.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

And a bigger example, a better example perhaps of a complete lack of context and a sort of almost amazingly glib attempt to revise history, is that Muhammad was the first sort of environmentalist."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

"There are,of course,some in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint a distorted picture of Judge Sotomayor's record,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

"When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02