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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
absent
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mark sb present/absent (=write on an official list that someone is there or not there, especially in school)
▪ Any student who is more than 20 minutes late for class will be marked absent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
▪ It is completely absent in the rat.
▪ Ferric iron in the form of magnetite is abundant, and metal is completely absent.
▪ Many invertebrates, such as crayfish, can not survive without a certain level of calcium, and are completely absent.
▪ This vulnerability is completely absent from the modern media image of the imam.
▪ Memories of the synagogue are also few, and its uplifting worship ceremonial almost completely absent.
▪ There will be anarchical aspects of organizations, but order is not completely absent.
conspicuously
▪ Although the Mandate was created by agreement, treaty arguments are conspicuously absent from the Court's reasoning in these two cases.
▪ Rison was conspicuously absent from much of the Jaguars' game plan.
▪ Members of the Catholic church were conspicuously absent.
▪ Dave Libbey, another top-flight ref, has been conspicuously absent since his return from an early season injury.
▪ But it is conspicuously absent so far.
▪ Morality and accountability are conspicuously absent.
▪ Yet one grouping was conspicuously absent from these campaigns.
▪ Feminist arguments in favour of day nurseries were also conspicuously absent.
entirely
▪ The evidence for the next higher stage is not entirely absent but, in this case, it is indirect.
▪ Almost entirely absent from many existing school-to-work efforts are the voices of students and parents.
▪ True, local business is not entirely absent but on the whole, foreign operators have been the first to benefit.
▪ Such feminist strengths and weaknesses are entirely absent from Bruce Arnold's book on Mainie Jellett.
▪ Not all the notions concerning sacrifice are entirely absent from our lives.
▪ Evidence for that seems remarkably thin, though not entirely absent.
▪ Science subjects and laboratories were almost entirely absent, and applied science was the province of artisan workers, not gentlemen.
▪ The bitterness of repeated daily confrontation with left-wing majorities has given them a steeliness entirely absent from the old-fashioned candidates.
largely
▪ This is largely absent in today's secular society.
▪ Traffic is horrendous, walking dangerous and any semblance of natural beauty largely absent.
▪ In this whole scandal one figure is largely absent: St Martin.
▪ But if direct partisan considerations are largely absent from the process, wider concerns of suitability are not.
▪ A consideration of the cultural context of such concept formations is largely absent from his work.
▪ Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market, they had been largely absent for several seasons.
▪ But Shell argues that although it has an obligation to the communities, so has the government, which is largely absent.
▪ There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual.
notably
▪ Splenomegaly, ascites, and extrahepatic symptoms of chronic liver disease were notably absent.
▪ Such a statement of principle is notably absent from the Government's proposals.
▪ Strangely, nobody said anything, but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays.
noticeably
▪ Allister, Kane, and Dodds have also been noticeably absent from public confrontations.
▪ Jackson and the national media were noticeably absent from Baltimore last November, when a similar incident happened.
▪ But what was noticeably absent was any serious intra-group rivalry.
▪ This includes parents, students, and the incumbent workers themselves-whose voices are noticeably absent in shaping many school-to-work initiatives.
▪ The Democratic leadership in Congress, which was noticeably absent at the signing ceremony, fought the measure.
totally
▪ Of course such features are never totally absent in experimental work.
▪ A major food source of squirrels and many finches is totally absent this year.
▪ We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen.
▪ Strategic analysis and vision was almost totally absent.
▪ Nor was a desire to retaliate for the Triple Intervention of 1895 totally absent.
■ NOUN
father
▪ Barras conducted a number of interviews that bear moving witness to the long shadow cast by absent fathers.
▪ Requiring this investment will give absent fathers incentive to take a more active personal interest in their children as well.
▪ In which case, may I suggest it is the absent father the authorities should be haranguing.
▪ I knew little of psychology but enough to be aware of the impact on the unformed ego of an absent father.
▪ At fifteen he ran away to sea, pursuing the myth of his absent father.
parent
▪ And following breakdown every effort should be made to ensure supportive continuity of contact between the child and the absent parent.
▪ They may fear to extend love and acceptance to the new partner as it seems a betrayal of the absent parent.
▪ There are many reasons why women might be unwilling to name the absent parent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For some reason, Young's name was absent from the list.
▪ If you're absent more than five times, you fail the course.
▪ The Adkinson children were absent from school about a dozen times last fall.
▪ The virus develops most quickly when antibodies are absent.
▪ While the boss was absent everyone started taking very long lunchbreaks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If the rest of the sustaining biosphere were absent, gardens would wither.
▪ Matilda was still ranting and raving against the absent Earl for getting himself captured.
▪ Mr Howe has no such reassurance, particularly with Gallacher absent for five games and no immediate sign of a return.
▪ The degree of mental stimulation was absent.
▪ The evidence for the next higher stage is not entirely absent but, in this case, it is indirect.
▪ The little birds had assumed the roles of birds that were absent from the area.
▪ The seas and rivers, lakes and glaciers, are gone; the dynamic play of rain and liquid water is absent.
▪ To capture the truth of the object then, the poem argues, the object must be absent.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
conspicuously
▪ And, once again, the big names have been conspicuously absent from the upper half of the performance table.
▪ Stories of substance, new and old alike, are often conspicuously absent.
▪ Intelligence did not figure. largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.
▪ For women this is good news, because they are conspicuously absent from the Official Future.
▪ But past controversies were conspicuously absent this weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long, but how I did miss it when it absented itself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absent

Absent \Ab*sent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Absented; p. pr. & vb. n. Absenting.] [Cf. F. absenter.]

  1. To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.

    If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined.
    --Addison.

  2. To withhold from being present. [Obs.] ``Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.''
    --Milton.

Absent

Absent \Ab"sent\, a. [F., fr. absens, absentis, p. pr. of abesse to be away from; ab + esse to be. Cf. Sooth.]

  1. Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. ``Expecting absent friends.''
    --Shak.

  2. Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.

  3. Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.

    What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
    --Chesterfield.

    Syn: Absent, Abstracted.

    Usage: These words both imply a lack of attention to surrounding objects. We speak of a man as absent when his thoughts wander unconsciously from present scenes or topics of discourse; we speak of him as abstracted when his mind (usually for a brief period) is drawn off from present things by some weighty matter for reflection. Absence of mind is usually the result of loose habits of thought; abstraction commonly arises either from engrossing interests and cares, or from unfortunate habits of association.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
absent

late 14c., from Middle French absent (Old French ausent), from Latin absentem (nominative absens), present participle of abesse "be away from, be absent" (see absence). Related: Absently; absentness.

absent

"to keep away" (from), c.1400, from Middle French absenter, from Late Latin absentare "cause to be away," from Latin absentem (see absent (adj.)). Related: Absented; absenting.

absent

"in the absence of," 1944, principally from U.S. legal use, from absent (v.).

Wiktionary
absent

Etymology 1

  1. 1 (context not comparable English) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.)(R:SOED5: page=8) 2 (context not comparable English) Not existing; lacking. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) 3 (context sometimes comparable English) inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied. (First attested in the early 18th century.) n. (context obsolete English) absentee; a person who is away on occasion. (Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the early 19th century.) prep. (context legal English) In the absence of; without. (First attested in the mid 20th century.) Etymology 2

    v

  2. 1 (context transitive now reflexive English) Keep away; stay away; go away. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) 2 (context intransitive obsolete English) Stay away; withdraw. (Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 18th century.) 3 (context transitive rare English) Leave. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.)

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WordNet
absent

  1. adj. not in a specified place physically or mentally [ant: present]

  2. lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absentminded, abstracted, scatty]

absent

v. go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: remove]

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Usage examples of "absent".

The abrazo is absent from their greeting, just a handshake and a quick, murmured discussion of business.

Quite prudently, he had absented himself from the country during the deaths of William and of Mary.

He always knew if someone was absent, but the rule of thumb was that unless he was asked a direct question he would not volunteer this information and therefore would not have to lie or turn the absentee in.

Linsmayer reported a case in which there was a softened adenoma in the pituitary body, and the thymus was absent.

He considered that the streams of lubricious thought which occupied the minds of men and women at court - and his own mind, despite applications of god and rod - were absent from ancipital harneys.

Furthermore, deep stirrings within my own person are by no means absent: a consequence of my abstention, opium in all its forms being an antaphrodisiac, counteracting venereal desire.

CUMMINGS helped himself to a piece of bacon from the platter in front of Asey, took a reflective bite, and absent - mindedly reached out for the slice of toast which had just popped out of the toaster.

But half an hour later when Ida went into the library she found him absorbed in his books as usual, and he only glanced up at her with absent, unseeing eyes, as she stood beside him putting on her gloves, her habit skirt caught up under her elbow, the old felt hat just a little askew on the soft, silky hair.

It would avoid the inconvenience of securing advance nominations from absent delegates, and the impracticality of associating them with the assembled electors in the subsequent ballots that are often required to meet the exigencies of majority vote.

The beloved son-in-law of the minister, speaking with an open heart to his friends, who were travelling, and absent, represented the King to them as a sort of country-gentleman, given up now to the domestic and uniform life of the manor-house, more than ever devoted to his dame bourgeoise, and making love ecstatically at the feet of this young nymph of fifty seasons.

Threewit and Farrar reached Noche Buena, Pasquale was absent from camp, but Culvera made them suavely welcome.

Tuesday afternoon, therefore, with full permission from Miss Burd, she absented herself from the hostel tea-table, and walked home with Bess instead.

And for every financially distressed senator, there were three who stood to lose far more from a general cancellation of debt than they stood to gain, men like Crassus, Lucullus, the absent Pompeius Magnus.

While the knights caroused, the English seized the castle of Guines, whose absent captain was celebrating with his companions of the Star.

If compounds of calcium are absent from the blood, coagulation does not take place.