abstracter

== English == === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /æbˈstɹæk.tɚ/ Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === From abstract + -er. ==== Alternative forms ==== abstractor ==== Noun ==== abstracter (plural abstracters) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents. [First attested in the late 17th century.] Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work. An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== abstracter (rare) comparative form of abstract: more abstract 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. === References === === Anagrams === reabstract