Abstracts
['æbstrækt]
Examples
- John Rokesmith read his abstracts aloud. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is due to rapid evaporation, which in changing the water from a liquid to a gaseous form, abstracts heat from the hands. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- My Lady carelessly and scornfully abstracts her attention. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That didn't answer very well; and then I began to state cases for them, and make abstracts, and that sort of work. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They say, when he was a little boy, he made an abstract of 'Hop o' my Thumb,' and he has been making abstracts ever since. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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