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noun
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(obsolete) abatement. - Sir T. Browne
verb (abat, ing)
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(transitive) To bring down (a person) physically or mentally; to humble; to depress.
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(transitive) To bring down or reduce to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short.
- 1605: She hath abated me of half my train " William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii
- 1611: His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. " Deuteronomy 34:7
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(intransitive) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; to experience a diminution of force or of intensity.
- The pain abates.
- The storm abated.
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The fury of Glengarry ... rapidly abated. - Thomas Macaulay
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(transitive) (obsolete) To beat down; to destroy; to level with the ground.
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The King of Scots ... sore abated the walls. - Edward Hall
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(transitive) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
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Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. - Fuller
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(transitive) To bar; to except.
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(transitive) (obsolete) To blunt.
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To abate the edge of envy. - Francis Bacon
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(transitive) (obsolete) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
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She hath abated me of half my train. - Shakespeare, King Lear, II-iv
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(transitive) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with.
- To abate a nuisance.
- To abate a writ.
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(transitive) To diminish; to reduce.
- Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
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(intransitive) To be defeated or come to naught; to fall through; to fail.
- A writ abates.
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- An abridgement or summary.
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w:Watts, Watts " An of every treatise he had read.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.
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w:Ford, Ford " Man, the Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
- An abstraction; an
- Adjective, abstract term.
- An abstract work of art.
- That which is abstract.
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w:John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill " The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
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(medicine) 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.
verb
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(transitive) To separate; to remove; to take away.
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w:Walter Scott, Walter Scott - He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
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(transitive) To withdraw.
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(transitive) (euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
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w:W. Black, W. Black - Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
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(transitive) To create artistic abstractions of.
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(transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
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(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself.
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(transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
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w:William Blackwood, William Blackwood, Blackwood's Magazine - The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
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(transitive) (obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
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(intransitive) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
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(intransitive) (rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
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w:Berkeley, Berkeley - I own myself able to in one sense.
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(intransitive) (computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- He abstracted out the square root function.
adjective
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(obsolete) extract, Extracted.
- Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.
- 17th century: w:Norris, Noris, The Oxford Dictionary - The more we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
- Absent in mind.
- Apart from practice or reality; not concrete; ideal; vague; theoretical; impersonal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
- Free from representational qualities.
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(logic) general, General (as opposed to particular).
- w:John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill - A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression " name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.
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| abstractionism |
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noun
- abstract art
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| abstractionist |
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noun
- Someone who paints or creates abstract art.
- An idealist. - Emerson
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| acetate |
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noun
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(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of acetic acid.
- cellulose acetate
- A transparent sheet used for overlays.
- A disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.
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| acrolith |
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noun- An ancient Greek wooden statue with limbs and head of stone.
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| action |
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noun
- Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A way of motion or functioning.
Knead bread with a rocking .
- A fast-paced activity.
an movie
- A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
a rifle
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(music): The set of moving mechanical parts in a keyboard instrument which transfer the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
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(slang) sexual, Sexual activity; intercourse.
She gave him some .
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
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(military) combat, Combat.
He saw some in the Korean War.
- A charge or other process in a law court.
- To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect
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| aestheticism |
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noun
- A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.
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| anecdotal |
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adjective
- Of the nature of or relating to an anecdote.
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| ankh |
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noun- A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the word "life" and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept. Also known as an ansate cross.
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| Annunciation |
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nounthe Annunciation
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(Christianity) The announcement by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she will give birth to a son, namely Jesus. Celebrated on 25th March.
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| Apollonian |
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adjective
- of or relating to the Greek god W:Apollo, Apollo
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| aquarelle |
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noun , (aquarelles)
- a picture made by the application of watercolor through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour
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| arabesque |
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noun
- An elaborate design of intertwined floral figures or complex geometrical patterns. This ornamental design is manly used in Islamic Art and architecture
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(music) An ornate composition, especially for the piano.
- A ballet position in which the dancer stands on one leg, with the other raised backwards, and the arms outstretched
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| armature |
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- The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire around a metal core.
- The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
- A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet
- A supporting framework in a sculpture.
- A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
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(uncountable) human, Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
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(uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
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(uncountable) Activity intended to make something special
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(uncountable) A recreation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value-judgements
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(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
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(uncountable) aesthetic, Aesthetic value.
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(context, uncountable, printing) artwork, Artwork.
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(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
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(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
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(countable) skill, Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
verb
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(archaic) Second-person singular simple present tense indicative of be.
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How great thou !
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| artist |
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- A person who creates art.
- A person who creates art as an occupation.
- A person who is skilled at some activity
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| artistic |
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- having or revealing creative skill
- relating to or characteristic of art or artists
- aesthetically pleasing
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| atelier |
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noun- A workshop or studio especially for an artist, designer or fashion house.
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| attribute |
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noun
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
His finest is his kindness.
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(computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
This packet has its coherency set to zero.
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(used with to before the object) To associate ownership or authorship with.
- This poem is attributed to Browning.
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| aureole |
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noun
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(astronomy) Corona.
- A circle of light or halo around the head of a deity.
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(context, by extension) Any luminous or colored ring that encircles something.
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| automatism |
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- A disassociative state where a person suffering has no control over their actions.
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| Axis |
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proper nounthe Axis
- The alliance group before and during World War II consisting of Germany, Italy, Japan, and allied countries.
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