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dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"

existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"

not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"

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

consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example"

give an abstract (of)

dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"

existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"

not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"

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

consider apart from a particular case or instance; "Let's abstract away from this particular example"

give an abstract (of)

Withdraw; separate.

Abstracted; absent in mind.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

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

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

To epitomize; to abridge.

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

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.

To perform the process of abstraction.

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.

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

An abstract term.

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.

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.

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

Withdraw; separate.

Abstracted; absent in mind.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

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

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

To epitomize; to abridge.

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

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.

To perform the process of abstraction.

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.

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

An abstract term.

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.

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.

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

A summing up of the main parts of a larger work.

To draw away; separate; steal; separate from and consider apart.

Considered apart; as, abstract truth; ideal; expressing a quality apart from any subject; as, abstract words.

Abstractly.

Abstractly.

To draw away: to separate: to purloin.

General, as opposed to particular or individual: the opposite of abstract is concrete: a red color is an abstract notion, a red rose is a concrete notion: an abstract noun is the name of a quality apart from the thing, as redness.

Summary: abridgment: essence.

ABSTRACTNESS.

Abstractly.

ABSTRACTNESS.

To take away; separate; divert; remove; purloin.

To make an abstract of; abridge.

Existing in thought only; not concrete; theoretical; imaginary; abstruse.

Separate; existing only in thought.

To draw or take from.

A powder made from a drug mixed with milk-sugar, and having twice the strength of the original drug.

A powdered extract diluted with sugar of milk, so that 1 part of the abstract represents 2 parts of the crude drug. Abstracts were official products of the U. S. Ph. for 1880. [Lat.]

n. That which comprises in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing, or of several things; specifically, an inventory, summary, or epitome ;—a state of separation from other things, as, to consider a subject in the abstract.

Separated from something else, generally used with relation to mental perceptions.

A smaller quantity, containing the virtue or power of a greater; in epitome made by taking out the principal parts.