Abstract vs Yellow - What's the difference?
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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.
* Milton
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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".
Having yellow as its colour.
* Milton
* Keble
* 1911', , "The green eye of the little ' yellow god,"
* 1962' (quoting '''c. 1398 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
(lb) Lacking courage.
*Monty Python
Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
* 2004 , Doreen Carvajal, "
Asian (relating to Asian people).
High yellow.
* 1933 September 9, (James Thurber), “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker :
Related to the .
* 2012' March 2, Andrew Grice, "
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(yellow) The colour of gold or butter; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
* 1892 , Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
(US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
(pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow[s] and red[s]); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls ).
(sports) yellow card
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To become yellow or more yellow.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
As nouns the difference between abstract and yellow
is that abstract is abstract while yellow is (yellow) the colour of gold or butter; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.As an adjective yellow is
having yellow as its colour.As a verb yellow is
to become yellow or more yellow.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.
Usage notes
* (to separate or disengage) Followed by the word from . * (to withdraw oneself) Followed by the word from . * (to summarize) Pronounced predominately as /?æb?strækt/. * All other senses are pronounced as /æb?strækt/.Synonyms
* remove, separate, take away, withdraw * abridge, epitomize, summarize * filch, purloin, stealDerived terms
* abstractable * abstracted * abstracter * abstractoryellow
English
Alternative forms
* yeallow (obsolete), yeller (slang)Adjective
(er)- A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
- The line of yellow light dies fast away.
- There's a one-eyed yellow' idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the ' yellow god for ever gazes down.
- dorr?&
- 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n.
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
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- The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
- Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
'''Yellowrebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", ''The Independent
- yellow constituencies
- The black-yellow coalition
Synonyms
* (lacking courage) cowardlyAntonyms
* (having yellow as its colour) nonyellow, unyellowDerived terms
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(wikipedia yellow) (en noun)- It is the strangest yellow , that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
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Synonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) amber (British)Antonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) red, greenHyponyms
* (color) bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green,Derived terms
* see yellowVerb
- Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
See also
*All pages with yellow as a prefix*