(a.) Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Masters in economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the mental over the physical.
(2) Britain's sodden fields mean the debate about climate change is now no longer confined to some abstruse problem affecting glaciers in far-off countries.
(3) As if to underline how far leftfield Radiohead have subsequently shifted, it's followed by the instrumental Feral, which in its live incarnation – scattered rhythms overlaid with echoing vocal loops and waves of electronic noise – is arguably the most abstruse and uncommercial piece of music you're ever likely to hear booming around an arena venue.
(4) At its best, British public service broadcasting wants to share the best with everyone, it takes topics or themes which may seem abstruse or unapproachable – the science of the solar system, what you can learn about civilisation through physical artefacts – and then brings them to life with such conviction and creativity that they reach deep across a society.
(5) Thus the abstruse nomenclature in common use is avoided.
(6) Innovative dance music is still being made, but it exists almost entirely out of the realm of the charts: for all its ground-breaking brilliance, there have been few takers among the mainstream record-buyers for the new, deliberately abstruse, genre of "grime".
(7) I think the most abstruse one we've put in here is ferkidoodle."
(8) The lawyer among them, the ever resourceful Markus C Kerber, probably came up with the abstruse idea of supporting their case by quoting the right to resistance.
(9) Filesharing tools have gone from the primitive, easily monitored and abstruse (IRC or the early Napster) to a very easy, attack-resistant architecture that was built in response to entertainment industry attacks.
(10) Or perhaps it's just a load of bumwash with wilfully abstruse bells on.
(11) In a less abstruse way, Twitter has already shown itself to be a useful conduit for circumventing legal or governmental censorship.
(12) The origins of this type of aberrant maternal behavior remain abstruse, as do the long-term psychological effects on the child victims.
(13) Shenouda's hundred books and countless sermons untangled abstruse dogma in a straightforward way.
(14) If it sounds a little abstruse, by the way, to try to solve the feminist framing of the ancient Greeks, the idea of a sex strike has reappeared more recently, in fiction if not in fact.
(15) For the lay person attempting to referee the row, and having to interpret such abstruse concepts as the Gini coefficient and, as Gaffney neatly summarises, whether "the r > g inequality is amplifying the reconcentration trend", illumination is hard to discern.
(16) For children about to undergo surgery and for their families, anxiety caused by the abstruse procedure and the child's separation can provoke a crisis.
(17) Whereas the effects of Fadenoperation on adduction incomitance are perfectly clear, those on the deviation in primary position still remain very abstruse.
(18) This manuscript is concerned with concepts rather than abstruse details or mathematics.
(19) Model theory is a branch of mathematics that treats such abstruse questions as "is there another number system, different from 0,1,2, ... that satisfies all the axioms of arithmetic?"
Aby
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Abye
Example Sentences:
(1) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(2) While it has been possible to readily produce large numbers of such templates from M13 or other single-stranded vectors for several years, the sequencing of double-stranded DNA templates using the ABI 373 DNA Sequencer has had a considerably lower success rate.
(3) Postoperative APR improved to 86.3 millimeters of mercury and ABI to 0.63 (p less than 0.05).
(4) And I would make sure that any news report included critics of his language.” We need to talk about the online radicalisation of young, white men | Abi Wilkinson Read more Damien McGuinness, a BBC Berlin correspondent, observes that Germany’s media, reconstructed after the war with a strong “moral component”, is struggling with the same journalistic challenge.
(5) By contrast, resting ABI measurements alone are unable to identify reliably a failing graft; they are useful primarily for confirming technical adequacy and relief of ischemia.
(6) This stress-related accumulation of the rab18 mRNA is markedly decreased in the ABA-synthesis mutant aba-1, the ABA-response mutant abi-1 or in wild-type plants treated with the carotenoid synthesis inhibitor, fluridone.
(7) The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is proposing that all homes continue to be covered, but with a cap on the annual premium they would pay.
(8) Molecular genetic analysis of PALL-I cells revealed neither bcr rearrangement nor 8.5-kb abI-related mRNA that is characteristically seen in Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
(9) Huw Evans, deputy director general at the ABI, said: "The review of the Riot Damages Act is overdue, but government proposals to drastically cut back compensation are at odds with its intention to retain the principle that the state is responsible for the costs of riot damage, that has proved its worth for taxpayers for over 100 years.
(10) Bound CGP-ABY was cleared first from the tips of the projections and subsequently from the entire pseudopod surface.
(11) Tonight, Abi Alton has to pretend to be Sammy Davis Jr. Next week, Abi Alton has to sing next to an out-of-control pneumatic drill.
(12) The induction by ABA is abolished in the ABA-insensitive mutant abi-1 indicating that the abi-1 mutation defines a component in the ABA response pathway.
(13) In the alternative (ABI-constant) method, intensity at the two ears was varied symmetrically about a constant base intensity, in a manner roughly approximating the pattern of changes that occur when a free-field stimulus is moved in azimuth from the median sagittal plane.
(14) The genetic determinant for abortive infection of bacteriophage (Abi) from the lactococcal plasmid pCI829 was cloned on a 6.2 kb StuI fragment in Escherichia coli using the shuttle vector pSA3.
(15) DSA and routine assessment of graft flow velocity (GFV) and ankle pressure indices (ABI) during the first postoperative year.
(16) The ABI also issued an amber alert on Barclays last year when one in 10 investors failed to support the remuneration report at an annual meeting, when private shareholders hit out against the pay deals.
(17) On the eve of the third anniversary of the outbreak of rioting in Tottenham , north London, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said that had the planned changes to compensation been in place in 2011 only £1 would have been paid out for every £10 worth of damage.
(18) Eighty-six femoropopliteal bypass operations were performed for ischemic ulceration, gangrene or rest pain in 77 patients whose mean preoperative ABI was 0.35.
(19) ABI exhibited the highest IL-6, and the cytokine level was lower in RAS, PMC, HGS and OLP in this order.
(20) Plasma C3d levels and iC3b in asthmatic patients were both comparable to those observed in normal controls, whereas patients with ABI had significantly higher iC3b levels than both other groups.