abstract meaning
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[ˈæb.strækt] [æbˈstrækt] WAbstract
- Abstract may refer to:
- Abstract (album), 1962 album by Joe Harriott
- Abstract (law), a summary of a legal document
- Abstract (summary), in academic publishing
- Abstract art, artistic works that don't attempt to represent reality or concrete subjects
- Abstract object in philosophy
- Abstract structure in mathematics
- Abstract type in computer science
- The property of an abstraction
- Q-Tip (rapper), also known as "The Abstract"
- NounPLabstracts
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of larger item, or multiple items.
- 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.
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- VerbSGabstractsPRabstractingPT, PPabstracted
- VT To separate; to disengage.
- VT To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages.
- VT (euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- VT To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- VT OBS To extract by means of distillation.
- Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?
- VT To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter.
- VI (reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- VT To draw off (interest or attention).
- He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- VI (rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- VI (fine arts) To create abstractions.
- VI (computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- He abstracted out the square root function.
- VT To separate; to disengage.
- AdjectiveCOMmore abstractCOMabstracterSUPmost abstractSUPabstractest
- OBS Derived; extracted.
- (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
- Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general, as opposed to specific.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Abstract words such as glory, honour, courage, or hallow were obscene.
- (archaic) Absent-minded.
- (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- OBS Derived; extracted.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Sleep scheduling is a standard approach for balancing energy consumption, which has been abstracted as the domatic partition problem.
- These details are unnecessary and should be abstracted away.
- State collection and dissemination have been abstracted away from the application by the common-map abstraction.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- In his final essay, "Breaking the Wand," James swears off his own "sabremetrician" label and vows to stop doing the Abstract.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of abstract in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- fr abstraction
- en abstraction
- en abstracted
- en abstractions
- fr abstractions
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "abstract" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.