Review vs Abstract - What's the difference?
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A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.
An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
(legal) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
A stage show made up of sketches etc.
A survey of the available items or material.
A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
To survey; to look broadly over.
To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
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To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
(obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
* 1610–11 , (William Shakespeare), '', act IV, scene iv, in ''The Works of Mr. ''William Shake?pear''; in Eight Volumes , volume II (1709),
(obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.
* 1726 , (Alexander Pope) (translator), (Homer) (author), (Odyssey)'', book III, lines 127–128, in ''The Ody??ey of Homer , volume I (1760),
An abridgement or summary.
* — An abstract of every treatise he had read.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of larger item, or multiple items.
* — Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
# Concentrated essence of a product.
# (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
An abstraction; an term; that which is abstract.
* — The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
(arts) An abstract work of art.
(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
(obsolete) Derived; extracted.
(now, rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
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Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific.
* - A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract' name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "' abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
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(archaic) Absent-minded.
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(arts) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
# (arts, often, capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century.
# (music) Absolute.
# (dance) Lacking a story.
Insufficiently factual.
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
(computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
To separate; to disengage.
* - He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
To remove; to take away; withdraw.
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* Sir Walter Scott
(euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
* - Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
(obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
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To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
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(intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
To draw off (interest or attention).
* , Blackwood's Magazine - The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
(rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
* - I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
(fine arts) To create abstractions.
(computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
English heteronyms
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In lang=en terms the difference between review and abstract
is that review is a judicial reassessment of a case or an event while abstract is lacking a story.In obsolete terms the difference between review and abstract
is that review is to retrace; to go over again while abstract is derived; extracted.As nouns the difference between review and abstract
is that review is a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact while abstract is an abridgement or summary.As verbs the difference between review and abstract
is that review is to survey; to look broadly over while abstract is to separate; to disengage.As an adjective abstract is
derived; extracted.review
English
(wikipedia review)Noun
(en noun)- I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.
- The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.
- The victims demanded a full judical review of the case.
- The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.
- The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.
- The Times Literary Review is published in London.
- The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.
- The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.
Derived terms
* * judicial reviewVerb
(en verb)- Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
- The critic reviews every new play in London.
page 954:
- Cam''[''illo''] What I do next, ?hall be next to tell the King // Of this E?cape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ?hall ?o prevail, // To force him after: in who?e company // I ?hall review ''Sicilia ; for who?e ?ight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.
page 113:
- Shall I the long, laborious ?cene review , // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?
See also
* revise (v.)Anagrams
*abstract
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) abstractus, perfect passive participle of .Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* (theoretical way of looking at things) Preceded, typically, by the .Synonyms
* (statement summarizing the important points of a text) abridgment, compendium, epitome, synopsisDerived terms
* abstract of titleAdjective
(en-adj)- The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
- abstract , as in a trance
Synonyms
* (not applied or practical) conceptual, theoretical * (insufficiently factual) formal * (difficult to understand) abstruseAntonyms
* (not applied or practical) applied, practical * (considered apart from concrete existence) concreteDerived terms
* abstractly * abstractness * abstract idea * abstract noun * abstract numbers * abstract termsSee also
* reifyEtymology 2
First attested in 1542. Partly from' English abstract (adjective form), ' and from (etyl) abstrat past participle of .Verb
(en verb)- He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
- (Franklin)
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- He abstracted out the square root function.