All 3 Uses of
abstract
in
Arrowsmith
- However abstracted and impractical, Gottlieb would have made an excellent Sherlock Holmes—if anybody who would have made an excellent Sherlock Holmes would have been willing to be a detective.†
Chpt 13 *
- Then there's another—this is a minor thing; it doesn't try to drive home general abstract principles, but it'd surprise you the effect it's had on careless housewives, who of course don't mean to neglect the health of their little ones and merely need instruction and a little pep put into them, and when they see a card like this, it makes 'em think: Boil the milk bottles or by gum You better buy your ticket to Kingdom Come.†
Chpt 19
- What struck down this man to whom abstractions and scientific laws were more than kindly flesh was the mania of hate which overcame the unmilitaristic America to which he had emigrated in protest against Junkerdom.†
Chpt 27 *
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing