Abstracting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSTRACTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• ABSTRACT, to draw away
• used euphemistically to indicate that someone has stolen something
• withdraw
• consider something theoretically or separately from (something else)
• extract or remove (something)
• make a written summary of (an article or book)
NOUN:
• a summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech
• an abstract work of art
ADJECTIVE:
• dealing with ideas rather than events
• not based on a particular instance; theoretical
• (of a noun) denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
• existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence
• relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, and textures
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to take away

Words related to ABSTRACTING

abstract12 abstracted15 abstracts13

Words that contain ABSTRACTING

overabstracting23

How to use ABSTRACTING in a sentence

• The interruption in the course of the preceding occurrences is remarked, and the power of abstracting similarities is in search of the cause of this irregularity.
• Formal Logic assumes the right of abstracting from the whole process of making an assertion.
• Nothing stronger than this could be said regarding his present power of abstracting his mind from surrounding circumstances.
• Locke, with his predecessors, had maintained that all reality is individual, and that universals exist only in the abstracting understanding.
• Nor did the events which accumulated upon him, both at home and abroad, by abstracting him from painful subjects, tend to facilitate his recovery.
• They then descend to enjoy their feast, which they obtain by inserting their claw through the small holes in the end, and abstracting the contents.
• I have but one word more to say concerning the poem as such, and abstracting from the matters, either religious or civil, which are handled in it.
• It was I who found him dead in his chair, and it was then that I took the liberty of abstracting the manuscript.
• In these images, the conferring, the abstracting, and the modifying powers of the Imagination, immediately and mediately acting, are all brought into conjunction.
• He is a man of moderate understanding, of no principle, absorbed in low vice, and incapable of abstracting himself from the filth of that, to direct any thing else.
• Again, the artists had an extraordinary power of concentrating and abstracting the great things of a story into a few elements or symbols.
• Still, this sublime resignation, by which I might emancipate my mind, through abstracting it from the body, would not serve my end.
• As he did so he noticed that the young man was coolly abstracting the cartridge from a small breech-loading pistol he held in his hand.
• That ended his last chance of abstracting a few more thrills from the borrowed treasure.
• He is a man of lofty reason, natural, and without pretension, always master of himself, brilliant in the art of exposing and of abstracting.

Similar words containing ABSTRACT without suffix ing

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