Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Abstract

Abstract
–adjective
1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
2. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty,  and speed.
3. theoretical; not applied or practical: abstract science.
4. difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations.
5. Fine Arts .
    a. of or pertaining to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical 
   b. ( often initial capital letter ) pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century.
–noun
6. a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome.
7. something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
8. an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object.
9. an abstract work of art.
–verb (used with object)
10. to draw or take away; remove.
11. to divert or draw away the attention of.
12. to steal.
13. to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances: to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter.
14. to make an abstract of; summarize
 
Samples:

  • abstract ideas such as love and hate

  • Honesty is an abstract word.

  • The word poem is concrete, the word poetry is abstract.

  • It is true that the atrocities that were known remained abstract and remote, rarely acquiring the status of knee-buckling knowledge among ordinary Americans. Because the savagery of genocide so defies our everyday experience, many of us failed to wrap our minds around it.

  • Abandon

    Abandon
    –verb (used with object)
    1. to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: to abandon one's farm; to abandon a child; to abandon a sinking ship.
    2. to give up; discontinue; withdraw from: to abandon a research project; to abandon hopes for a stage career.
    3. to give up the control of: to abandon a city to an enemy army.
    4. to yield (oneself) without restraint or moderation; give (oneself) over to natural impulses, usually without self-control: to abandon oneself to grief.
    5. Law . to cast away, leave, or desert, as property or a child.
    6. Insurance . to relinquish (insured property) to the underwriter in case of partial loss, thus enabling the insured to claim a total loss.
    7. Obsolete . to banish.
    Samples:

     

    1. They abandoned the car on a back road.
    2. That house was abandoned years ago.
    3. The approaching fire forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.
    4. The officer refused to abandon his post.
    5. The policy abandons the most vulnerable members of society.
    6. She abandoned the party not long after the election.

    Monday, February 7, 2011

    Analyze or Analyse

    Analyze or Analyse
    1 to examine or think about something carefully, in order to understand it:
    He still needs to analyse the data.
    You need to sit down and analyse why you feel so upset.
    Janet  had never tried to analyze their relationship.
    2 to examine a substance to see what it is made of:
    The cell samples are analyzed by a lab.
    3 to examine someone's mental or emotional problems by using
      Samples:
    With analysis, you tell your reader how you want him or her to understand.
    I have analaysed this material .
    I am analising the resualt of the experiment .
    In the graph we have good anlalysis between statical result .