abstract

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   Withdraw; separate.

2. 2adjective

   Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

3. 3adjective

   Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.

4. 4adjective

   Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.

5. 5adjective

   Abstracted; absent in mind.

6. 6adjective

   To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

7. 7adjective

   To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.

8. 8adjective

   To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.

9. 9adjective

   To epitomize; to abridge.

10. 10adjective

    To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.

11. 11adjective

    To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

12. 12transitive verb

    To perform the process of abstraction.

13. 13adjective

    That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.

14. 14adjective

    A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

15. 15adjective

    An abstract term.

16. 16adjective

    A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

17. 17noun

    a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

    "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

    Synonyms

    abstraction
18. 18noun

    a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

    Synonyms

    outlineprecissynopsis
19. 19verb

    consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically

20. 20verb

    consider apart from a particular case or instance

    "Let's abstract away from this particular example"

21. 21verb

    give an abstract (of)

22. 22verb

    make off with belongings of others

    Synonyms

    cabbagefilchhookliftnobblepilferpinchpurloinsneakswipe
23. 23adjective

    existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment

    "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"

24. 24adjective

    dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention

    "abstract reasoning"

    "abstract science"

25. 25adjective

    not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature

    "a large abstract painting"

    Synonyms

    abstractionistnonfigurativenonobjective