abstract shape

collocation in English

meaningsofabstractandshape

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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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shape
noun
uk
/ʃeɪp/us
/ʃeɪp/
the particular physical form or appearance ...
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(Definition ofabstractandshapefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Hypothesis 1 is that late talkers know less than their normally-developing peers about theabstractshape characteristics shared by lexical category members.
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The findings imply a relation between the growth of productive vocabulary and the emergence of the ability to represent object categories byabstractshape.
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Thus, the results can be said to show that global productive vocabulary predicts how well children, in a comprehension task, are able to recognize named objects byabstractshape.
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What the figure represents is not known; it could be a bird, a horse, a woman or a totallyabstractshape.
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What the figure represents is not known; it could be a bird, a horse, a woman, or a totallyabstractshape.
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Object categories were represented two ways : by lifelike, perceptually rich toys, and by grey caricatures of those objects' abstract shapes.
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Two experiments examined the relation between early object name learning and the ability to represent objects by their abstract shapes.
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All three experiments also report differential activity to social movement of abstract shapes in inferior temporooccipital regions, including the fusiform gyrus.
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His design was ambiguous and somewhat controversial, and what the figure represents is not clear; it could be a bird, a horse, a woman or a totallyabstractshape.
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Along with the use of crisp, abstract shapes is a new interest in performance, in transcending the limits of a physical object.
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Strange abstract shapes could usually be seen evolving on a video monitor, growing and evolving, week after week, month after month.
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He is best known for his abstract shapes constructed from fired clay.
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Many of the works show nocturnal urban scenes, fires, abstract shapes and patterns as well as short excerpts of stencilled texts.
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Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.
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Some are made of decorative wire or mesh, in abstract shapes such as dragonflies, often with glass gems or marbles.
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During college his work evolved from figurative to eventually dealing more with abstract shapes.
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Crazy quilts were made of abstract shapes sewn randomly together.
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His contemporaries were impressed by the abstract shapes and structures in nature that he revealed.
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Westermann adopts the vocabulary of minimalist art, using elemental abstract shapes, but at the same time she goes beyond the minimalist rigid, impersonal character.
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