Definitions of abstract [ˈæb stə nəns]

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Definition of 'abstract'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) abstract
thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances:
an abstract idea.

2.  abstract
expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance: an abstract word like justice.

3.  abstract
theoretical; not applied or practical.

4.  abstract
difficult to understand; abstruse.

5.  abstract
emphasizing line, color, and nonrepresentational form:
abstract art.

6. (n.) abstract
a summary of a text, technical article, speech, etc.

7.  abstract
an abstract idea or term.

8.  abstract
an abstract work of art.

9.  abstract
something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general.

10. (v.t.) abstract
to draw or take away; remove.

11.  abstract
to divert or draw away the attention of.

12.  abstract
to steal.

13.  abstract
to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances.

14.  abstract
to make an abstract of; summarize.

15.  abstract
in the abstract, without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME: withdrawn from worldly interests < ML abstractus, L: ptp. of abstrahere to drag away, divert =

Definition of 'abstract'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) abstraction, abstract
a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
"he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

2. (adj) outline, synopsis, abstract, precis
a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

3. (adj) abstract
existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
"abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"

4. (adj) abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective
not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
"a large abstract painting"

5. (verb) abstract
dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
"abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"

6. (verb) abstract
consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically

7. (verb) pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
make off with belongings of others

8. (verb) abstract
consider apart from a particular case or instance
"Let's abstract away from this particular example"

9. (verb) abstract
give an abstract (of)

Definition of 'abstract'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) abstract
≠ concrete
abstract concepts

2. abstract
relating to art where shapes and colors express emotions
an abstract painting

3. (noun) abstract
a summary of an essay, report, etc.; = synopsis
to write an abstract

Definition of 'abstract'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) abstract
withdraw; separate

2. (adj) abstract
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. (adj) abstract
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. (adj) abstract
resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name

5. (adj) abstract
abstracted; absent in mind

6. (adj) abstract
to withdraw; to separate; to take away

7. (adj) abstract
to draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects

8. (adj) abstract
to separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute

9. (adj) abstract
to epitomize; to abridge

10. (adj) abstract
to take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till

11. (adj) abstract
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. (adj) abstract
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

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

14. (adj) abstract
an abstract term

15. (adj) abstract
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

16. (verb) abstract
to perform the process of abstraction

Translation of 'abstract'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (of a noun) referring to something which exists as an idea and which is not physically real Truth, poverty and bravery are abstract nouns.
Afrikaans: abstrak	Arabic: مُجَرَّد/ غَيْر مَحْسُوس	Bulgarian: абстрактно
Brazilian: abstrato	Czech: abstraktní	German: abstrakt
Danish: abstrakt	Greek: αφηρημένος (γραμμ.)	Spanish: abstracto
Estonian: abstraktne	Farsi: انتزاعی	Finnish: käsitteellinen
French: abstrait	Hebrew: מוּפשָׁט	Hindi: सारांश/कला संबंधी अमूर्त
Croatian: apstraktan	Hungarian: elvont	Indonesian: tidak nyata, abstrak
Icelandic: óhlutbundinn, óhlutstæður	Italian: astratto	Japanese: 抽象的な
Korean: 관념적인	Lithuanian: abstraktus	Latvian: abstrakts
Malay: abstrak	Dutch: abstract	Norwegian: abstrakt
Polish: abstrakcyjny	Persian: خيالى	Pashto: خيالى
Portuguese: abstracto	Romanian: abstract	Russian: отвлечённый
Slovak: abstraktný	Slovenian: pojmoven	Serbian: apstraktan
Swedish: abstrakt	Thai: ที่เป็นนามธรรม	Turkish: soyut
Taiwanese: 抽象的	Ukrainian: абстрактне поняття	Urdu: ذہنی ، خیالی
Vietnamese: trừu tượng	Chinese: 抽象的
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