You shall know a word by the company it keeps. - John Rupert Firth

The complete meaning of a word is always contextual, and no study of meaning apart from context can be taken seriously.

The phonetic animal par excellence is man. All men are born with an infinite capacity for making noises and using them.

Meaning... is to be regarded as a complex of contextual relations, and phonetics, grammar, lexicography, and semantics each handles its own components of the complex in its appropriate context.