Abstract ¹

Definition: Withdraw; separate.

Abstract ²

Definition: 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.

Abstract ³

Definition: 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.

Abstract ⁴

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

Abstract ⁵

Definition: Abstracted; absent in mind.

Abstract ⁶

Definition: To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

Abstract ⁷

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

Abstract ⁸

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

Abstract ⁹

Definition: To epitomize; to abridge.

Abstract ¹⁰

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

Abstract ¹¹

Definition: 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.

Abstract ¹²

Definition: To perform the process of abstraction.

Abstract ¹³

Definition: 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.

Abstract ¹⁴

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

Abstract ¹⁵

Definition: An abstract term.

Abstract ¹⁶

Definition: 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.

abstract ¹⁷

Definition: a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

abstract ¹⁸

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

abstract ¹⁹

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

abstract ²⁰

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

abstract ²¹

Definition: give an abstract (of)

abstract ²²

Definition: make off with belongings of others

abstract ²³

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

abstract ²⁴

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

abstract ²⁵

Definition: based on specialized theory; "a theoretical analysis"

abstract ²⁶

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