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      abstract
      noun
      An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
      Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
      Concentrated essence of a product.
      (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
      An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
      The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
      (art) An abstract work of art.
      (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
      verb
      (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
      (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
      (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
      (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
      (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
      (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
      To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
      (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
      (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
      (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
      (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
      (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
      adjective
      Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
      Insufficiently factual.
      Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
      (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
      Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
      Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
      Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
      (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
      (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
      (music) Absolute.
      (dance) Lacking a story.
      (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
      (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
      (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
      (archaic) Absent-minded.
      Roots
      abab- · Latin · away fromtraho-tract · Latin · draw, pull
      Synonyms for abstract
      abstractionnconceptualadjoutlinensynopsisnillustrationntheoreticaladjsummaryn
      Words related to abstract
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