1. (of a noun) referring to something which exists as an idea and which is not physically real. Truth, poverty and bravery are abstract nouns.abstracto 2. (of painting, sculpture etc) concerned with colour, shape, texture etc rather than showing things as they really appear. an abstract ...
Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook semiabstract Thesaurus sem·i·ab·stract (sĕm′ē-ăb-străkt′, -ăb′străkt′, sĕm′ī-) adj. Of or relating to an art form characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter. ...
Avoid repetition and filler words:Replace nouns with pronouns when possible and eliminate unnecessary words. Avoid detailed descriptions:An abstract is not expected to provide detailed definitions, background information, or discussions of other scholars’ work. Instead, include this information in the bo...
60. The set of words included 240 nouns, half rated as abstract, the other half as concrete. Emotion was operationalized by emotional valence. Neutral words (50% of the stimuli) were contrasted with emotional words (negative and positive, 25% each). Arousal ratings were comparable...
Stimuli consisted of 60 sentences composed of a verb and a concept noun. Concept nouns included 30 abstract concepts and 30 concrete concepts used in a previous study17. The set of stimuli consisted of 3 sub-categories of concrete concepts, i.e., ten tools (e.g., “hammer”, “umbrella...
This is what Whitehead was looking for when he condemned Western metaphysics as based on nouns rather than verbs and made the existence of his "actual entities," the equivalent of Leibniz's monads, transient rather than permanent -- setting off enthusiastic comparisons of this to the transientdha...
Some topics such as criminals, misers, drunks, and children’s games appear again and again, while many others have never been observed. Verbs also clump (break,turn,make,lack,kill), with the top 11 verbs accounting for 150 compounds alone. Nouns recur as well, the most common beingwater...
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their referents. Recently, proponents of grounded theories are starting to recognize the important role that statistical linguistic information, derived from our experience with language, might play. In this perspective, some authors have proposed that words are shortcuts to meaning and might facilitate...
Abstract, unlike concrete, nouns refer to notions beyond our perception. Even though there is no consensus among linguists as to what exactly constitutes a concrete or abstract word, neuroscientists found clear evidence of a “concreteness” effect. This can, for instance, be seen in patients wit...