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Meanings of abstracting in inglês

espanhol
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 inglês
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This it effects not by accumulation of detail, but by abstracting from it.
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
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She saw Peter abstracting the money, and so informed Mrs. Crawford.
Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience
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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...
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Moreover, there are no seats, and the custodian insists upon abstracting one's walking-stick.
A Wanderer in Venice
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Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The sun, the air, and the earth are constantly abstracting from us our vital forces.
Thrift
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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
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Pregnancy outcomes and complications were obtained by abstracting the antenatal, delivery, and newborn medical records.
Pubmed
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That ended his last chance of abstracting a few more thrills from the borrowed treasure.
The Soul of a Child
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But if one employs them without being conscious of abstracting, they acquire a fictitious existence.
The Tyranny Of Words
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Morely flipped through the routine matter, occasionally selecting a report or letter and abstracting data.
Final Weapon
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When the ha'nt begins abstracting chickens from the oven I think it's time to investigate.
The Four-Pools Mystery
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Well, take the risk of abstracting one day's journals, and have them ready for me.
The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
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The phenomenon may be described by selecting its central or decisive characteristics and abstracting its accidentals.
Humanistic Nursing
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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
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Little Fuzzy was actually making a symbolic representation, by abstracting the distinguishing characteristic of the damnthing.
Little Fuzzy
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Abstracting through the time
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