Definition of abstract

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

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Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
Synoptic :: Synopsis (n.) A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus..
Precis :: Precis (n.) A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.
Extract :: Extract (n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4..
Abstractiveness :: Abstractiveness (n.) The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) An abstract term.
Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Abstractedly :: Abstractedly (adv.) In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
Absence :: Absence (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind..
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) 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..
Eikon :: Eikon (n.) An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art..
#NAME? :: -ion () A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or process of revolving; construction, the act or process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction..
Docket :: Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers..
Abstractness :: Abstractness (n.) The quality of being abstract.
Unbending :: Unbending (a.) Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths..
Universal :: Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it..
Moon :: Moon (v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) 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 :: Abstract (a.) Withdraw; separate.
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