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plural loaders
Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads. quotations examples
A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution. examples
A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc. examples
(marketing) An incentive given to a dealer. quotations examples
Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.
1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197
Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.
1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591
Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.
2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172
countable and uncountable, plural abstractions
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away. quotations
The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
1848, J. S. Mill, Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy
(euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. examples
(engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer. examples
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses. examples
The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas. quotations examples
Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
c. 1837, W. Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, published 1860, Lecture XXXV, page 474
Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence. examples
A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup. examples
The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization. examples
An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature. examples
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation. quotations examples
"One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 55
(art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects. examples
(chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. examples
An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature. examples
The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations. examples
(geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
(computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such. examples