different between abstractor vs abstracter

English

Etymology

abstract +? -or

Pronunciation

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

Noun

abstractor (plural abstractors)

1. Alternative form of abstracter [First attested in the mid 17^th century.]
2. (dated, historical, Britain) A clerk of a certain title or grade in the British civil service.

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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.

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Anagrams

• reabstract