define — Contextual Definition & Translation

A word's true meaning lives in its context. "Bank" by a river is not "bank" that holds money; Thai "เอา" shifts sense with the verb beside it; an idiom means nothing if you read it word by word. This skill takes a target (a word or phrase) plus the context it sits in, resolves the sense the context selects, and explains it the way a good language teacher would — then, on request, translates just that target contextually into another language.

This is a comprehension tool, not a localization tool. For editing translation files, adding locales, or syncing translation keys, use the sibling i18n skill. The two share a cultural knowledge base (see Locale & cultural nuance) but do different jobs: i18n produces localized strings; define explains a word in context.

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