abstract entity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofabstractandentity
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abstract
adjective
uk/ˈæb.strækt/us/ˈæb.strækt/
existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofabstractandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofabstract entity
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The soul (the form of the body) is an eternally existingabstractentity.
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To consider the electroacoustic community as anabstractentityis an illusion.
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A morpheme-based analysis would have to stipulate anabstractentitythat has some meaning, but no phonological form.
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They advocated the concept of an individual living in anabstractentitycalled 'society', the poles of which were mediated by a centralized state.
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When possession involves anabstractentityand thus cannot involve physical control, someone can bring about a change of possession without being the original possessor.
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For example, the verb breathe requires an animate entity as its subject, whereas the verb happen requires anabstractentityas its subject.
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But goodness in general is anabstractentityif it is anything (and if it isn't anything, the question of how it accounts for existence gets all the harder).
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The second policy is that of a moreabstractentitythat is known as the alliance, which claims to be against student loans.
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It was to be a sort of victimless crime, or rather a fine on the guilty—the so-called fat cats and the speculators—or on someabstractentity, the utility companies.
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Time is anabstractentityand is conceived only through the changes that take, place around us.
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It is anabstractentitythat is only depicted as a planet in the myth.
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Though predominately perceived as geo (earth) related, spatial information can range from the anatomic to astronomic scale, from the real to theabstractentity, over any time period.
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Clearly in language contact it is speakers who meet and not abstract entities.
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It is obvious that there are infinitely many abstract entities that no human person has ever thought of.
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For one thing, sets are notoriously abstract entities.
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But if abstract entities exist at all, they are eternal and necessary and therefore uncreated.
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Plato was one of the first essentialists, believing in the concept of ideal forms, anabstractentityof which individual objects are mere facsimiles.
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