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abs

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noun

Abdominal muscle.

Examples :

"To improve his abs, he started doing sit-ups every day. "

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noun

An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.

Examples :

"The doctor treated the man's abs on his arm, which were a result of using dirty needles to inject drugs. "

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verb

Examples :

"The experienced climber will abs down the steep rock face. "

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noun

The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.

Examples :

"The abs of his fitness journey were challenging, but he persevered. "

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verb

(now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.

Examples :

"The farmer sadly had to abs his newborn lambs, as they were stillborn. "

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To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

Examples :

"The doctor explained the risks involved if she chose to abs the pregnancy at that stage. "

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To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.

Examples :

"The mountain climbers had to abs their expedition when the weather turned dangerous. "

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To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.

Examples :

"He absed his attempt to learn French after only one week, finding the pronunciation too difficult. "

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To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.

Examples :

"Due to lack of sunlight, the small plant began to abs and eventually withered. "

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To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

Examples :

"The lack of sunlight and nutrients absed the seedlings, preventing them from growing into healthy plants. "

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To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.

Examples :

"The student abs'd the school project halfway through, deciding it was too difficult. "

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To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.

Examples :

"The military crew had to abs the malfunctioning missile before it could reach the target. "

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To terminate a process prior to completion.

Examples :

"The teacher had to abs the exam because the fire alarm went off. "

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noun

Initialism of absolute value function.

Examples :

"In math class, we learned that `abs` of -5 is 5, because absolute value always returns a non-negative number. "

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noun

Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.

Examples :

"The physics experiment required us to record the temperature in abs to accurately calculate energy changes. "

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adjective

Derived; extracted.

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"The data is abs from several different reports. "

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Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.

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"Because of her infectious disease, the ill student was kept abs from her classmates for two weeks. "

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adjective

Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.

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"The idea of a perfect world is abstract and difficult to imagine. "

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Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.

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"The professor's lecture on quantum physics was so abs that even the graduate students struggled to follow it. "

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Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.

Examples :

"The phrase "a red car" uses "red" in an abs sense, simply describing a property of the car, rather than changing the car itself. "

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adjective

Examples :

"The abstract concept of justice can be difficult for children to grasp. "

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adjective

Examples :

"Professor Davis, always so abs, forgot his own office keys again. "

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Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.

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"The art teacher encouraged us to focus on the abstract qualities of the painting, like the balance of color and the rhythm of the lines, rather than what the painting represented. "

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Insufficiently factual.

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"The evidence presented in his essay was abs, relying mostly on personal opinions rather than verifiable facts. "

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Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.

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"The professor's lecture on economics felt very abs to me because it didn't connect to any real-world examples or situations I could relate to. "

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(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.

Examples :

""Honesty is an abs concept; you can't touch it, but it's important." "

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Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

Examples :

"The `Animal` class was abs, requiring subclasses like `Dog` and `Cat` to implement their own specific `makeSound()` method. "

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