abstract

abstract has 25 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Withdraw; separate.
• a.. 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.
• a.. 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.
• a.. Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
• a.. Abstracted; absent in mind.
• a.. To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
• a.. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
• a.. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
• a.. To epitomize; to abridge.
• a.. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
• a.. 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.
• v. t.. To perform the process of abstraction.