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GRE 红宝书

• n. 摘要adj.抽象的
• ［英］ n. 摘要 ( a brief statement; summary; abridgment) ;抽象的(dissociated from any specific instance)
• ［类］ 反义词: elaborate ( 详细)
• ［记］ abs+tract ( 拉) -> 从文章中拉出 -> 摘要;
• ［同］ 同根词: intractable ( 倔强的) , contract ( n.合同, v.收缩)
• ［派］abstracted(adj. 心不在焉的)

注意abstract 与abstracted

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: Medieval Latin abstractus, from Latin, past participle of abstrahere to drag away, from abs-, ab- + trahere to pull, draw
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. disassociated from any specific instance an abstract entity
  • b. difficult to understand ; abstruse abstract problems
  • c. insufficiently factual ; formal possessed only an abstract right
• 2. expressing a quality apart from an object the word poem is concrete, poetry is abstract
• 3.
  • a. dealing with a subject in its abstract aspects ; theoretical abstract science
  • b. impersonal, detached the abstract compassion of a surgeon — Time
• 4. having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content abstract painting
• • abstractly adverb
• • abstractness noun

II. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin abstractus
• Date: 15th century
• 1. a summary of points (as of a writing) usually presented in skeletal form; also something that summarizes or concentrates the essentials of a larger thing or several things
• 2. an abstract thing or state
• 3. abstraction 4a

III. *Date: 1542

• transitive verb
  • 1. remove, separate
  • 2. to consider apart from application to or association with a particular instance
  • 3. to make an abstract of ; summarize
  • 4. to draw away the attention of
  • 5. steal, purloin
• intransitive verb
  • to make an abstraction
• • abstractable adjective
• • abstractor or abstracter noun

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