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Meanings of abstracting in inglés

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abstraer

Activity of producing a summary or extract of a document to act as a surrogate for the entire work.

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          Usage of abstracting in inglés
          1
          This it effects not by accumulation of detail, but by abstracting from it.
          The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
          2
          She saw Peter abstracting the money, and so informed Mrs. Crawford.
          Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience
          3
          I am far indeed from abstracting from M. le Duc d'Orleans all gratitude.
          Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
          4
          Moreover, there are no seats, and the custodian insists upon abstracting one's walking-stick.
          A Wanderer in Venice
          5
          Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical.
          Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
          6
          The sun, the air, and the earth are constantly abstracting from us our vital forces.
          Thrift
          7
          So to my office all the morning abstracting the Duke's instructions in the margin thereof.
          Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 17: July/August 1662
          8
          Pregnancy outcomes and complications were obtained by abstracting the antenatal, delivery, and newborn medical records.
          Pubmed
          9
          That ended his last chance of abstracting a few more thrills from the borrowed treasure.
          The Soul of a Child
          10
          But if one employs them without being conscious of abstracting, they acquire a fictitious existence.
          The Tyranny Of Words
          11
          Morely flipped through the routine matter, occasionally selecting a report or letter and abstracting data.
          Final Weapon
          12
          When the ha'nt begins abstracting chickens from the oven I think it's time to investigate.
          The Four-Pools Mystery
          13
          Well, take the risk of abstracting one day's journals, and have them ready for me.
          The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
          14
          The phenomenon may be described by selecting its central or decisive characteristics and abstracting its accidentals.
          Humanistic Nursing
          15
          Coleridge says: Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical.
          The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
          16
          Little Fuzzy was actually making a symbolic representation, by abstracting the distinguishing characteristic of the damnthing.
          Little Fuzzy
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          abstraer
          Abstracting through the time
          Abstracting across language varieties
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