(a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
(a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
(a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
(a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
(a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
(a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
(a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
(a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
(a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
(a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
(v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
(a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
(a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
(a.) An abstract term.
(a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) For dipeptides containing the amino terminal residues glycine, alanine and phenylalanine, abstraction of the hydrogen from the carbon adjacent to the peptide nitrogen was the major process leading to the spin-adducts.
(2) The death certificates were abstracted; all deaths under age 60 and a 20% sample of deaths 60 and older were examined.
(3) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
(4) Actin also exhibited a clear dual wave pattern of transport that coincided well with that of tubulin, indicating that both actin and tubulin were the major components of both groups IV and V.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(5) A mathematical model that abstracts the major features of the vegetative life cycle of Neurosopra crassa has been developed, and the action of selection in this model and various extensions of it is such as to maintain polymorphisms of vegetative incompatibility factors.
(6) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(7) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
(8) 131 cases of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) among infants born in the Municipality of Copenhagen during 1956--1971 were analysed on the basis of data collected prospectively by the infant health visitors and abstracted from police reports.
(9) Case abstract data are routinely collected by hospital abstracting services, peer review organizations, and some state agencies.
(10) 260, 9265-9271] and possibly electron abstraction-water addition.
(11) All 546 patients were surveyed prospectively, using the Health Assessment Questionnaire and information abstracted from hospital records.
(12) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.
(13) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(14) On the basis of information abstracted from case histories, 41 patients who had experienced epileptic seizures thought to be due either to treatment with psychiatric drugs or to withdrawal from sedative drugs were compared with a control group of patients.
(15) 11 (suppl 14) 331 (abstract)] [14] also indicates that sensitivity to 4-HC can be used to distinguish primitive progenitor cells from committed progenitor cells.
(16) Although these differences in kinetics suggest differences in control mechanism(s), the absence of I and T on the surface of NaCl-grown cells suggests that there is also a common regulatory link among H, S and L.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(17) This is an important precedent, because hydrogen abstraction from carbon-10 is a critical step in the lipoxygenase-catalyzed synthesis of 8- and 12-hydroperoxy-eicosatetraenoates (HPETEs) and for the conversion of 5- and 15-HPETEs to leukotrienes.
(18) The correlations between Inability to Abstract and Autism before and after those scales that contributed significantly to the Rs had been partialed out also were calculated.
(19) For example, population spikes of "short" latency (3-4 or 4-5 ms, depending on the animal) exhibited only facilitation in response to interstimulus intervals of 1-4 ms.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
(20) The inward current caused by nicotine was unaffected by intracellular GTP gamma S.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Concrete
Definition:
(a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
(a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.
(a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
(n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
(n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
(n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
(n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
(v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
(v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
(v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
(2) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(4) The question of ethics inevitably arises, and should be considered before a concrete situation arises which leaves no time for reflection.
(5) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(6) As a result of a psychopathological total systems analysis of the debut of exogenously aggravated and nonaggravated paranoid schizophrenia the authors have revealed a significant interrelationship allowing the characterization of both general regularities of the "background" effect and individual characteristics secondary to a concrete nature of exogenous impact.
(7) Fifty-seven percent had concrete evidence of serious psychiatric disorder.
(8) Fifa and I will take the Qatari authorities at their word and I look forward to the concrete actions which will be the real testament of will,” Infantino said.
(9) Three attributes of words are their imageability, concreteness, and familiarity.
(10) The paper finishes with concrete propositions of proceeding when the computer system is implemented and shows possibilities of scientific data evaluation of a microbiological data base.
(11) Now, with cuts biting every community and public service in the UK, the possibility for a full-blown confrontation between the government and an anti-austerity movement has become concrete.
(12) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
(13) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(14) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
(15) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(16) described in Lösungen - an analysis of concrete treatment examples could yield suitable therapeutic techniques to broaden the interventional spectrum of psychotherapy, especially of behavioral oriented forms.
(17) In a bid to strengthen its claims, China has constructed concrete installations on some underwater formations, complete with basketballs and helipads.
(18) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(19) What remains to be developed is a "differential health psychology of the concrete individual", which might the way for prophylactic health promotion oriented towards the norm of individuality.
(20) The presence of similar concretion in the nervous system as well as the lung in other reported cases suggests that microlithiasis could be a systemic disease.