different between abstracted vs abstracter

English

Etymology

abstract +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b.?st?æk.t?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b.?st?æk.t?d/, /æb.?st?æk.t?d/

Adjective

abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)

1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
2. (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
3. (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 57:

     I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?

Derived terms

• abstractedly
• abstractedness

Translations

Verb

abstracted

1. simple past tense and past participle of abstract

References

English

Alternative forms

• abstractor

Etymology

abstract +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?st?kæ.t?/
• Rhymes: -ækt?(?)

Noun

abstracter (plural abstracters)

1. One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]

   an abstractor of title

2. Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
3. An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.

Adjective

abstracter

1. (rare) comparative form of abstract: more abstract
   • 1698, John Norris, Treatises upon several subjects: viz.: Reason and religion, or, the grounds and measures of devotion ; reflections upon the conduct of human life ..., page 316:

     Absurdity, which perhaps may signifie more with some Apprehensions, than an abstracter way of of reasoning : It is this, That upon this Supposition it would follow, chat if God himself should impose any Command upon a Creature, […]

   • 1991, James Matisoff, quoted in Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, John Benjamins Publishing (?ISBN), page 384:

     […] bleaching, which nicely captures the partial effacement of a morpheme's semantic features, the stripping away of some of its precise content so it can be used in an abstracter, grammatical-hardware-like way.

References

Anagrams

• reabstract